And as a civil-rights lawyer in the 1960's, he was once pursued by a white mob in Mississippi.

I am a black civil-rights lawyer, but I have to do more than just practice law in order to serve my clients.

Mr. Mason said he accepted as an article of faith the view that "black civil-rights lawyers must be more than just lawyers."

As it happens, my work for two criminal defense and civil-rights lawyers often takes me into courthouses.

Educators, psychologists, doctors, civil-rights lawyers and parents have arrayed a persuasive body of evidence proving what, in fact, is plain common sense.

"Among black civil-rights lawyers there is a lot of concern about this case," a prominent black lawyer said.

Some civil-rights lawyers argued that the decision on the emergency order, while technical, amounted to a court warning against large-scale deportations in the future.

In a loose series of fragments, he becomes a surgeon who performs an operation, a Harvard student and a civil-rights lawyer.

Frederick Brewington, a civil-rights lawyer handling several suits involving abuse of inmates, said prosecutors seemed to give guards a free pass.

The proposals have drawn a barrage of criticism from civil-rights lawyers, editors, reporters and Western diplomats.