And there is Janet Venable (Laura Linney), who once had an affair with Martin and now becomes his courtroom adversary.

"No." "Undo my zipper and pull my pants down," he said in a steely voice that, no doubt, caused his courtroom adversaries to quake in their Gucci boots.

His courtroom adversaries say that Mr. Hardy never gives clients anything less.

According to colleagues and courtroom adversaries, Mr. Smith combines a relentless work ethic - needed to absorb the arcane details of medical science - and an underlying belief that his clients are victims who have suffered grave injustices.

The next day, Ellen Wolf, a ruthless defense attorney and old courtroom adversary of Miguel's, goes missing, and Dexter discovers that Miguel has killed her alone.

The short, stocky defense attorney, whose glasses go on and off as he questions prospective jurors, and the silver-haired, dapper young Assistant District Attorney have never been courtroom adversaries before.

Prosecutors who have had Mr. Jacobs as a courtroom adversary were curiously closed-mouthed when asked about Mr. Jacobs.

Mason's courtroom adversary is John Lucas, a wily deputy district attorney.

Today, Microsoft and the Justice Department, which had been fierce courtroom adversaries for years during the Clinton administration, spoke with virtually one voice on most issues.

Instead, Farid el-Deeb painted an astonishing portrait of a leader who was "clean and could say no wrong", and lambasted his courtroom adversaries for besmirching Mubarak's family with "libel and slander".