61.   But her trial lawyer has sworn that Beets knew nothing about those benefits until he told her about them a year after the murder.

62.   But in two decades of battles, trial lawyers have maintained the upper hand by keeping it relatively easy to get to court in most states.

63.   But Kerry is not without a long list of big-time donors, from trial lawyers to Las Vegas casino operators to Hollywood movie moguls.

64.   But most trial lawyers and other experts interviewed Friday said the prosecution had committed a blunder, and some attributed it to simple incompetence.

65.   But many trial lawyers and consumer groups strongly oppose legal protections.

66.   But investors were not kind to insurance companies after reports surfaced that trial lawyers were preparing class-action lawsuits on behalf of managed-care patients.

67.   But it has made tort reform an easy target for trial lawyers, who have successfully tarred it as antipopulist.

68.   But it was a bravura feat during his five years as a trial lawyer for the Legal Aid Society that began the long, slow retrenchment in his thinking.

69.   But Sweeney said trial lawyers as a group are now all over the political map.

70.   But the former trial lawyer pointed out that last year the state legislature gave the PUC president broad powers to make staff changes.