1.   As the jurors deliberated behind closed doors, the judge huddled with lawyers from both sides in his chambers.

2.   The shakeout fuels the consolidation, as groups of lawyers from failed firms attach themselves to larger firms.

3.   The unfortunate man was Mr John Stevenson, a young lawyer from London.

4.   She married a dashing young lawyer from the city.

5.   In that we manage to take good lawyers from other people?

6.   An ACLU lawyer from St. Louis, Burton Newman, then persuaded a federal judge in Kansas City to reopen the case.

7.   Among other regulations, it would prohibit lawyers from paying brokers to steer potential class-action plaintiffs to them.

8.   Among the other proponents of the Thai council was Mark Grobmyer, a lawyer from Little Rock, Ark., with close ties to the president.

9.   Among those who voted against it was Hanan Ashrawi, a lawyer from the West Bank well known as a spokeswoman for the Palestinians.

10.   And defense lawyers from coast to coast said that no topic had received more attention this fall than the Singleton ruling.