"They were the longest days of my life," Mr. Hajj's lawyers quoted him as saying.

The lawyer quoted medical records in which the accuser told a psychiatrist that he was going to try to leave the military.

"I wanted to help her get on with her life," the lawyers quoted him as saying.

"When I did the right thing and made it stick, she felt a greater need to cling," one lawyer quoted him as saying.

My line about "the approximate pH of battery acid" seemed like something a lawyer could gleefully quote.

The youth was stabbed, the deliveryman's lawyer quoted him as testifying, as they fought over the knife.

Foreigners take our jobs away, his lawyer quoted Mr. Richter as saying.

The teen-ager's lawyer, Lynne Stewart, previously quoted him as saying that this had occurred.

Any time a lawyer quotes a retainer or an hourly figure, it is worth asking how it might be trimmed.