31.   Computers are not new to either lawyers or the law, as firms use computers to keep track of documents and organize research.

32.   Even though Internet credit card theft is highly unlikely, reputable firms will use a secure transaction system for extra protection.

33.   Every brokerage firm uses a different rating system.

34.   Environmental law firms have used assessments paid by polluters to finance later suits against other polluters, they say.

35.   Firms must use a new method for measuring tar and nicotine.

36.   For a decade, Apple refused to let other firms use its operating system in Mac clones.

37.   For more than a decade, Apple refused to let other firms use its operating system in Mac clones.

38.   For instance, the Internet brokerage firm ETrade uses a SpeechWorks system to let customers make stock trades from any phone, without ever speaking to a human being.

39.   For the moment, the seed capital that the firm used to start the fund still makes up the majority of its assets.

40.   Forehand said he did not expect the firm to use the dot-com suffix.