21.   Goizueta rose swiftly through the ranks at Coca-Cola, eventually becoming executive vice president with control of the laboratory, the legal department and general administration.

22.   He was also a professor at the National School of Administration in Bamako, Mali, and appeared in Malian courts as chief of the government legal department.

23.   If any irregularities were found, the legal department investigated the source, imposed a remedy and updated its training to prevent similar problems from emerging again.

24.   If the NFL legal department were a boxer, it would be Peter McNeeley.

25.   Indeed, who besides the legal department would ever take comfort in the fact that a given business records its service calls?

26.   It queried the State Department, which put its legal department to work.

27.   Monroe R. Sonnenborn, a managing director in the legal department who had been suspended with pay last month, resigned under pressure.

28.   Most black professionals in the industry work in support functions like human resources and legal departments that rarely feed into the top echelons of the companies.

29.   Of course, managers who are being asked to do something about their C performers should receive full support from their human resources and legal departments.

30.   Other minority lawyers move to government law jobs or corporate legal departments.