He'd been arrested for a variety of crimes, but his expensive lawyers always managed to get the charges dismissed.

By midday yesterday, the 54-year-old lawyer had managed to appear on all five major national talk programs in one morning.

"She is able to find the experts for us, much the way a corporation's lawyers manage its business among law firms," he said.

His lawyer managed to get him off and he left the country for two years.

Mr. Uyboco's lawyers managed to keep his case from going to trial until 1997.

However, the lawyers observed the detainees being moved between floors in the building and managed to talk to some of them.

The old lawyer barely managed to again cover his excitement.

But only unscrupulous lawyers, not their landscapers, manage to bill for more hours than they breathe.

His lawyers, working frantically, managed to secure a stay.

"Their lawyers managed to fight a battle that really had nothing to do with the essence of the story," he said.