1.   Another Kmart executive, Peter Palmer, who is vice president in charge of labor relations and assistant general counsel, also bought Kmart shares recently.

2.   Before joining the Post, he was a lawyer in New York City and assistant general counsel at General Dynamics.

3.   After serving in the Air Force, he was assistant special counsel to President Eisenhower before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School.

4.   After service in the Army Air Force in World War II, he became assistant counsel to Dewey.

5.   Burns was a founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and a former assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

6.   But Kayla Gillan, assistant general counsel with the state retirement fund, would comment.

7.   But Washington Attorney Stephen E. Hershkowitz, assistant general counsel for the Election Commission, argued that federal law allows corporations to spend money to encourage people to vote.

8.   Daniel I. Gordon, assistant general counsel for procurement law at the GAO, said the agency would focus on whether officials properly followed contracting rules.

9.   For many years, Bartimo was the assistant general counsel for manpower and reserve affairs at the Department of Defense.

10.   From there, he became assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc.