21.   Corporate lawyers, like those representing individual defendants, are allowed to conceal their private communications with their clients by asserting what is called the attorney-client privilege.

22.   County officials say they are paying more every year for lawyers appointed to represent criminal defendants whom the public defender cannot.

23.   Ed Garland, an Atlanta attorney representing the defendants, did not return a phone call Monday.

24.   Egbert also represents defendant James M. Martorano, a reputed captain in the New England Mafia, who is in federal prison in Pennsylvania on a related conviction.

25.   He also pointed to other bills, such as one that sets standards for lawyers appointed to represent poor defendants, that are working their way through the Legislature.

26.   He is a former assistant district attorney in Brooklyn who, in private practice, has represented defendants charged with white-collar crimes as well as police officers.

27.   He began representing death penalty defendants early, and in one of his first such cases, his client was acquitted.

28.   He spent several years with a large law firm that represented corporate defendants.

29.   Her desire to represent criminal defendants having survived law school, Ms. Clark went into private practice.

30.   In this case, the lawyer who represented a defendant charged with murder had earlier represented the murder victim in an unrelated matter.