1.   But a clearer picture of the informer emerged from a series of hushed conversations in court hallways.

2.   The pool of reporters that hover in the court hallways has doubled to a dozen.

3.   Cook, who was in a court hallway when the verdict announced, claimed the oral agreements never existed.

4.   More recently, there were disapproving clucks when a former law clerk wrote that two clerks got into a shoving match in a court hallway.