21.   Firms hired aggressively to handle the huge volumes of the past two years, and many are now trimming back.

22.   For one, the less-skilled people that American firms are now hiring will have less immediate productive potential than their more skilled colleagues.

23.   He decided to attend law school at the University of Pennsylvania, even though an uncle warned that corporate law firms would not hire blacks.

24.   He said it was too early to say which industries the firm would hire new bankers to cover.

25.   He said the firm has hired lawyers to investigate.

26.   Implied in that bid preference decision was that the firm would hire local residents and there were some requirements for outreach efforts to local residents.

27.   In both cases, the databases were assembled by law firms hired to defend the businesses against lawsuits.

28.   Just as law firms hire former cabinet members to drum up clients, so music schools use the famous name as a kind of logo.

29.   Many firms are hiring.

30.   Maybe the firm hired extraordinary people.