Ms. Majette, 47, a Brooklyn-born, Yale-educated lawyer, has tried to distance herself from the perception that she is the candidate solely of pro-Israel groups.

This is the sort of assignment for which the 60-year-old Yale-educated lawyer has been preparing all his life.

Clinton, 54, a Yale-educated lawyer who ranks 97th, prides herself on precisely the same attributes.

They also learned that his Yale-educated lawyer, William Montrose, hadn't lost a case in seventeen years.

Pratt was born in Norwich, Connecticut to Sarah (Whittlesey) and George Pratt, a Yale-educated lawyer.

John Ashley was a Yale-educated lawyer, wealthy landowner, businessman and leader in the community.

Their icon was Frank Shorter, a Yale-educated lawyer whose victory in the 1972 Olympic marathon ignited the mass running movement.

She married a Yale-educated lawyer and had her own brief Wall Street career before becoming a full-time mother and Westport, Conn., hostess.

Still, it seemed to Bosch that what this Yale-educated lawyer did had little to do with law as Bosch knew it.

But that psalm also had enormous significance long ago in England's common-law courts, as any Yale-educated lawyer would know.