21.   Company lawyers even drafted a memo, issued by Hodel, that told Fritz to withhold his ruling, those records indicate.

22.   Company lawyers seal up corporate records on continuing litigation or current proprietary secrets.

23.   Company lawyers spent hours deposing her.

24.   Company lawyers call that sheer speculation.

25.   Company lawyers tried but failed to get the case dismissed.

26.   Courts have disbanded most class-action tobacco cases, and tobacco company lawyers tried their utmost to have this one dismissed.

27.   Company lawyers are expected to call Staples CEO Thomas Stemberg and possibly Office Depot CEO David Fuente as witnesses later this afternoon.

28.   De Benedetti leaves and Caio stays, while company lawyer Antonio Tesone becomes Chairman, though likely a non-executive one.

29.   Hall repeatedly grilled tobacco company lawyer Richard Cooper, comparing tobacco to heroin, pesticides and other products regulated or banned by the government.

30.   He also said that Ms. Velasquez had told company lawyers that on the day she described, she ended up halting the production line until extra sorters were added.