He has recruited other highly regarded lawyers to represent some of the surviving cult members.

This small staff is very young and very loyal, made up largely of highly regarded lawyers, accountants and finance specialists.

In some Spanish-speaking countries, a "notario publico" is a highly regarded lawyer with special power to negotiate with the government.

Bruce Rogow, a highly regarded lawyer representing the Palm Beach County elections supervisor, has heard unsolicited legal advice this week from almost everyone he knows.

A former Foreign Minister of Mali, Mr. Beye was a highly regarded lawyer, diplomat and political figure, known for his energy and quick-wittedness.

Mrs. Blair is a highly regarded lawyer in London, specializing in public and employment law and known professionally by her maiden name, Cherie Booth.

Though Mr. Garber is a highly regarded lawyer on government ethics and campaign finance, his work with Mr. Rowland provides ammunition for Democrats.

Mr. Brafman is a highly regarded lawyer who is working closely with Mr. Cutler in a trial about rigging bids on window-installation contracts.

On Monday, Ms. Lewinsky retained a new lawyer, William Ginsburg, a Los Angeles malpractice specialist who knew her father and is a highly regarded lawyer.

But a complicated political fight has made casualties, at least temporarily, of four female candidates for judgeships, all of whom are highly regarded lawyers with strong ratings from the American Bar Association.

Last month, the firm lost two other highly regarded lawyers, Calvin J. Collier, who moved to the Kraft Corporation, and Peter M. Kreindler, who switched to Coopers & Lybrand .

She was a logical candidate: the wife of the governor, a Wal-Mart shareholder - with stock eventually worth nearly $100,000 - and a highly regarded lawyer at the Rose Law Firm, which had represented Wal-Mart in several cases.

And Hillary found a good job at the Rose Law Firm, which was full of experienced, highly regarded lawyers and bright younger ones, including my friend Vince Foster and Webb Hubbell, a huge former football star for the Razorbacks who would become one of Hillary's and my closest friends.

Ms. Booth, 42, a highly regarded lawyer in London, had a dazzling academic record at the London School of Economics, topped all candidates in her bar exams, entered practice in 1976 and remarkably swiftly was made a Queen's Counsel in 1995, a title held by only the top 10 percent of English barristers.