11.   At the same time, but more quietly, his lawyers were trying to settle the lawsuit.

12.   Before the year was over, his lawyers tried to enter a guilty plea that would spare him the death penalty.

13.   A few lawyers tried to keep their class actions within Legal Services, a move that many feared would blow up the fragile agreement with Congress.

14.   After the trial recessed, defense lawyers tried to cast doubt on the discovery of the bullet in a crime laboratory by the Police Department investigator, Mary Eng.

15.   But he also said it was understandable for the Skakel defense lawyers to try to implicate Littleton.

16.   But he said lawyers are trying to go even further and make HMOs liable for all sorts of malpractice suits.

17.   But race quickly became an issue in Albany when defense lawyers tried to remove several black women from the jury.

18.   Clinton has denied that, and his lawyers have tried to have the suit postponed until after he leaves office.

19.   Colombian judicial authorities have said that his lawyers were trying to negotiate a surrender.

20.   Company lawyers tried but failed to get the case dismissed.