21.   He passed the national exam for lawyers as a college junior, becoming the youngest person in his class to pass the exam.

22.   He has regularly been cited by political scientists and lawyers as the model of a modern attorney general.

23.   He quoted an unnamed Malaysian lawyer as saying such cases normally took at least five years to reach a court.

24.   He has a reputation among lawyers as fair-minded, decisive and intelligent.

25.   His vetting teams were led by such veteran lawyers as Charles F.C. Ruff, the former White House counsel who defended Clinton during his impeachment trial.

26.   Hollywood once depicted lawyers as heroes who helped the downtrodden and upheld the law.

27.   His organization recruits lawyers as advisers to cities through press advertisements and its legal education courses.

28.   In a phone conversation, Litchfield described lawyers as victims of a kind of generalized hatred.

29.   Judges no longer will be able to dole out appointments to lawyers as a reward for their campaign contributions or for their willingness to strike quick plea bargains.

30.   Known to his American friends and lawyers as Michael Chen, Xue is not a legal resident of the United States.