11.   A spokesman would only name the top bankers the firm had hired from First Boston.

12.   According to a person familiar with First Capital who asked not to be identified, the firm recently hired a consultant to recruit potential buyers.

13.   After he helped put himself through Syracuse University and Law School by working as a janitor, no Manhattan law firm would hire him.

14.   Bush and many Republicans reportedly favor setting federal standards for the screeners and possibly even paying for them but allowing private firms to hire and supervise the workers.

15.   But most Israeli firms hire U.S. staff to do their sales and marketing.

16.   But the firm recently hired a J.P. Morgan Chase executive to assist Benton with the administrative side of the technology operation.

17.   Drafting a mission statement can be a drawn-out process, and large firms often hire consultants like Monroe to help out.

18.   Earlier this year, the firm hired Manuel Gonzalez Sordo to head its Mexican unit and Fernando Nieto Castilla as an executive director in Mexico.

19.   Employees were urged to remind clients that the firm had hired other former presidents as speakers.

20.   Even if the law had permitted him to practice, Kyo says, no major firm would have hired him because of his ethnicity.