1.   Appearing in U.S. District Court in Seattle Thursday, Kim asked to be allowed to hire private counsel to replace the public defender assigned him.

2.   Brinkman and Hirschbeck retained private counsel and started calling their fellow umpires urging them to do likewise.

3.   But it would start with Louis Tirelli, the lawyer assigned by the court to represent Tippins, who could not afford private counsel.

4.   Gore was represented by his private counsel, James Neal, and Elizabeth Brown, counsel to the vice president.

5.   He keeps a very private counsel in a very public endeavor.

6.   He reportedly was meeting with defense lawyers provided by the Army and considering whether he would seek private counsel at his own expense.

7.   I am certain you would agree that the President deserves the same right to the informed assistance of private counsel as does every other citizen.

8.   If he wants to pursue this fight, he should hire private counsel.

9.   She has been put on leave and has retained Joseph Duffy, a noted Chicago lawyer, as her private counsel, lawyers involved in the affair say.

10.   The nation has equally compelling reasons for ensuring that Presidents are well advised on whether charges are serious enough to warrant private counsel.