1.   Blair was accompanied to the polling station by his lawyer wife Cherie and three of his teenage children.

2.   Michael Atwood is a decidedly flawed man, all but ignorant of the ways of his highly intelligent lawyer wife, played by Vivica A. Fox.

3.   The two have been called ideological soulmates, two policy hounds with lawyer wives who helped their parties regain power by moving them from the left toward the center.

4.   But Blair and his high-flying lawyer wife, Cherie Booth, have introduced a more populist note.

5.   There are the ever-smiling photo opportunities, arm round his high-powered lawyer wife, Cherie, sometimes with their three young children or his mother-in-law included.

6.   Such accusations have also been levelled at Hillary Clinton, the lawyer wife of US President Bill Clinton.