21.   If the client withholds information, the argument goes, then it will be harder for the lawyer to effectively defend that client.

22.   J. Albert Johnson, a Boston defense attorney who has defended clients in RICO cases, said conspiracy statutes were never meant to cover political protests.

23.   Jaye Meyer, a Raleigh, N.C., lawyer who has defended several clients in alienation of affection cases, says such laws are antiquated.

24.   Judges have demanded that the trial press on, and Giacomo Barletta Calderera has had to defend his client without ever having spoken to him.

25.   Lawyers of his choice should be able to defend their client without arbitrary restrictions.

26.   Lawyers, however, need to defend their clients both in court and in public.

27.   Lynch does more than defend her clients.

28.   Ms. Ortolano did not hide her contempt for Puccio, a lawyer who has built a reputation for aggressively and successfully defending his clients.

29.   No one disputes the responsibility of a defense lawyer to vigorously defend his client.

30.   Nussbaum is expected to respond that his actions were those of an aggressive lawyer defending his clients, with little thought to public relations or political appearances.