Don H. Reuben, a prominent litigator in Chicago, would have taken a similar tack.

Legal scholars and prominent litigators said that proving libel is extremely difficult, but it opens the door to a public airing of the litigants' private affairs.

Brad S. Karp is a prominent American litigator.

"You never know where a reign of terror ends," one prominent litigator said.

Two prominent litigators are joining an engineer in a suit that accuses a defense contractor of lying to the government about antimissile research.

A prominent litigator and senior partner, he retired from Foley, Hoag & Eliot in 1993 after nearly 50 years with the firm.

Finally, there is the matter of reparations, which has found advocates in some of the nation's prominent litigators.

He was a prominent litigator and the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 1900.

Friends, including several of Manhattan's most prominent corporate litigators, stood resolutely by Mr. Fishbein yesterday.

Marsha Berzon, a prominent appellate litigator in San Francisco, has been waiting two years.