41.   But another contentious issue facing the ABA membership is a proposal to overhaul rules preventing lawyers from setting up partnerships with accountants, consultants and other professionals.

42.   But facing mounting pressure to show action, Fox met with lawyers from the Miguel Agustin center on Thursday.

43.   But Ed Kone, a criminal-defense lawyer from Boca Raton who was in the audience, appeared ready to join a Giuliani presidential campaign.

44.   But even by local standards, the recent physical attack on a visiting Democratic lawyer from Capitol Hill has left many people stunned.

45.   But it would not discourage lawyers from taking cases at all, as the cap on punitive damages in both the House and Senate bills would.

46.   But lawyers from both sides of the case, and others, describe Posner as a brilliant jurist, among the most respected in the United States.

47.   But Russ Herman, a lawyer from New Orleans who also represents class-action plaintiffs in the negotiations, said no fees had been discussed.

48.   But some officials at city agencies said it was not so easy to regard Harding, Badillo or other lawyers from their firm as just any other lobbyists.

49.   But then lawyers from Wells Fargo, Union Bank of California and Bank of America stepped in.

50.   But the former environmental lawyer from Washington, D.C., never expected to develop a successful career as a bead stringer.