21.   Legal Aid eliminated half its supervisors by laying off a quarter of them and demoting another quarter to staff lawyers.

22.   Now, she said, the senator makes decisions about the substance of FDA legislation, and the bill is drafted by Senate staff lawyers.

23.   Nine of the remaining waivers were under scrutiny by the House Veterans Committee because West had granted them after cemetery officials or Army staff lawyers had oppposed them.

24.   Russ Haven, a staff lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group, accused the supervisors of not doing enough to educate the public on the proposition.

25.   Some groups, like the Animal Legal Defense Fund, pay salaries to staff lawyers.

26.   The amendment was placed in the unrelated Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act in response to an industry request by a staff lawyer for the House subcommittee.

27.   The FTC has set a closed-door meeting on Friday to decide whether to accept a proposed settlement that staff lawyers have negotiated with the companies.

28.   The FTC has set a closed-door meeting on tomorrow to decide whether to accept a proposed settlement that staff lawyers have negotiated with the companies.

29.   The staff lawyer for the commission, Pamela Bell Martin, said the report would be sent to legislative leaders this week.

30.   The suit is to be filed in federal district court for Vermont, in Burlington, said Brian Dunkiel, a staff lawyer for Friends of the Earth.