11.   A survey by Georgetown University last year found that asylum-seekers are four to six times as likely to be granted asylum when lawyers represent them.

12.   After the jury returned the death sentence against Sinisterra, a Colombian national, lawyers representing Ortiz scaled back plans to present testimony from friends and family members.

13.   Burton Young, the Miami divorce lawyer representing Olexa Farrell, said the court order means she can take the horses anywhere she wants.

14.   But disciplining lawyers during a trial is a tricky business, with legal consequences, since judges have to allow lawyers to vigorously represent clients.

15.   But Bernard Udell, a lawyer representing Murad, went for the jugular, asking the inspector whether it was not a crime in the Philippines to manufacture evidence.

16.   But its complexity alone ought to auger against an easy rule requiring lawyers to represent anyone and everyone.

17.   But lawyers representing both the breast implant makers and women who received them said that they had failed to make substantial progress on a new settlement.

18.   But lawyers representing illegal immigrants said, while they will listen to any proposal from the governor, they are far from open-minded.

19.   But Mathew Rosengart, a lawyer representing independent counsel David M. Barrett, said arguments on separation of powers were introduced only to cloud the issues of the case.

20.   Dinkins dusted off his resume and identified himself as one of two lawyers representing the boy.