31.   He often wore his White House security pass around his neck to settlement talks in Washington area hotels, two cigarette company lawyers said.

32.   He is a tobacco company lawyer who hauls down more than a million dollars a year from his law firm.

33.   Hours after the release went out, company lawyers called the Software Publishers Association and demanded a retraction.

34.   Hulett met privately with the interior secretary, who soon signed the memo apparently drafted by company lawyers.

35.   Ike Massey, the president and chief executive of the Media News Los Angeles group, said that company lawyers believed the pact did not violate antitrust laws.

36.   In addition, while both Moore and the cigarette company lawyers have said they are eager to do battle in court, neither side can risk a crushing defeat.

37.   In response, a company lawyer denied there had been any attempt at bribery.

38.   In the end, he claims, his boss told him if he spilled the beans to company lawyers he risked being blacklisted on Wall Street.

39.   Instead, a company lawyer, John Reilly, read a statement with numerous attachments to show that the payments were proper.

40.   It also asserts that company lawyers had conducted themselves appropriately by evaluating potential research.