1.   Bush already has retained legal counsel in anticipation of lengthy suits and the Gore camp expects to do so as well.

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

3.   But her efforts to retain other counsel went nowhere, and Lewinsky decided to stick with Ginsburg and Nathaniel Speights, a little-known Washington criminal defense lawyer.

4.   By April, he had retained counsel and informed Nixon of the investigation by the office of George Beall, the U.S. attorney for Baltimore.

5.   If Moussaoui could afford to pay his own lawyer, he could, of course, retain any counsel he wanted.

6.   Pope said she had retained legal counsel and was exploring her options to sue the Mail and papers that repeated the allegations.

7.   Umpires who retained individual counsel were advised that their resignation letters left them without recourse should baseball choose to accept them.

8.   Astra said in a statement that it had retained independent counsel to investigate the allegations against Lars Bildman.