21.   Consider the case of Philip Lacovara, a former general counsel at Morgan Stanley and special counsel in the Watergate case.

22.   Commissioner Gary Bettman, a former legal counsel for the NBA, has strong ties to Davidson.

23.   Cox, a former White House counsel, is a temperate, judicious lawmaker who now heads the House Policy Committee.

24.   David A. Martin, a former general counsel for the immigration service, said that secret evidence should be used sparingly.

25.   Deutsche Telekom has responded by retaining Lloyd Cutler, the former White House counsel to Presidents Clinton and Carter.

26.   Earlier inquiries, including one by the former independent counsel, Robert B. Fiske Jr., have found that Foster had been depressed and committed suicide in the park.

27.   Eric Sterling, a former counsel to the chairman of the US House subcommittee on crime, calls it the politics of hysteria.

28.   Fink and Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel in the Clinton administration, made that argument in the application they filed with the White House in December.

29.   For a former White House counsel to rely on this exception to press the president for a pardon takes an unusual ethical insensitivity.

30.   For example, Mel Southard, a former in-house counsel for the Yankees, has been retained in New York.