"Leaving Big Law Behind: The many frustrations that cause well-paid lawyers to hang out their own shingles."

Mr. Thayer won a reputation as a formidable and well-paid lawyer who drove a hard bargain on behalf of his clients.

Sometimes that search comes at almost any cost and often, experts say, it is with the help of well-paid lawyers, classified advertisements, personal referrals and intermediaries or so-called baby brokers.

Mr. Bush should suspend federal executions until decisions about who lives and who dies cannot be predicted based on the color of one's skin and access to a well-paid lawyer.

But he has a lot of good actors on his side: doting wife, doting mistress, well-paid lawyers, Silly Billy.

That eliminates a whole army of workers, including business owners and partners (the latter is the status of most well-paid lawyers and investment bankers), the self-employed and day laborers.

In the capital, he is a well-paid, powerful lawyer and lobbyist for several big corporations, from American Express to Sony.

For more than four decades he was a well-paid - and some said brilliant - international lawyer.

And those doing the defrauding are our more well-to-do citizens, aided by well-paid lawyers.

If only she had not been an exceedingly well-paid corporate lawyer, her nomination might have survived despite her admission that she hired two illegal aliens for child care and household help.