1.   Consumer and attorney groups have replied that the current system help keeps securities firms in line, and that there is no need for any major reforms.

2.   Schwartz is a salaried employee of The Defender Association, one of four nonprofit attorney groups the county pays to represent defendants.

3.   The campaign also helped shed light on what many attorney groups say is a sometimes haphazard approach to appointing lawyers to represent indigent defendants.

4.   The joint efforts mark a new level of cooperation among attorney groups trying to rid the profession of its most egregious ambulance chasers.

5.   The joint efforts to prevent improper solicitation mark a new level of cooperation among attorney groups in trying to police their profession.

6.   And Florida Rural Legal Services, an attorney group in Miami, said planned repatriations are continuing.