1.   And Chief Judge Walter Colbath asked staff lawyers to see whether the five circuit suits filed so far are similar enough to be combined into a single case.

2.   And that was just the beginning of problems, says Scott Groene, a staff lawyer for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

3.   At a hearing on the contempt motion in December, a staff lawyer for the SEC explained why the agency was moving so forcefully against Hecht.

4.   Abascal went to work immediately as a staff lawyer for California Rural Legal Assistance, one of the many legal-services programs born of the War on Poverty.

5.   After the breakup he joined the company as a staff lawyer.

6.   But Ann Beeson, a staff lawyer for the civil liberties group in New York, said the decision was a defeat for First Amendment rights.

7.   But Gene Russianoff, staff lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, another rider group, urged the board members to spend the money one way or another.

8.   Company officials and attorneys spent the last several weeks in almost daily negotiations with staff lawyers at the FTC.

9.   Even the powerful Major League Players Association does not have one black staff lawyer, though it lists former player Tony Bernazard as a special assistant.

10.   Formal FTC approval was expected, after the companies negotiated an agreement in July with agency antitrust staff lawyers.