That analysis, Mr. Golan's lawyers say, is consistent with the constitutional balance between property and speech.
The report suggests that the agency is shifting its focus away from big corporations to smaller companies, private partnerships and other private entities, a move that tax lawyers said was consistent with trends they were seeing.
"He followed the instructions of an Andersen in-house lawyer, which were consistent with Andersen's longstanding policy," said the lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, who insisted that his name not be used.
However, his lawyers have said that he was following the instruction of an Andersen in-house lawyer, which were consistent with the firm's longstanding policies.
See Brief for Petitioner in No. 05 51, p. 38 ("[A] lawyer may not, consistent with the purposes of Article 36, unilaterally forfeit a foreign national's opportunity to communicate with his consulate").
The appeals, filed with a state appellate court in Manhattan, said that the convictions of Mrs. Astor's son, Anthony D. Marshall, and the lawyer, Francis X . Morrissey Jr. were not consistent with the evidence.
He was located several days later, after his family made extensive enquiries about his whereabouts, with injuries consistent with torture, lawyers said.
In that context, he said, public support for the use of military tribunals or for eavesdropping on lawyers' conversations with clients was consistent with curbs on liberties the public supported in World War II and at the height of the cold war.
Everything she did in this case was consistent with ethical lawyering and the advice provided her by a nationally prominent law firm retained by her employer specifically because of its experience in working with F.D.A".
The pattern is consistent with what bankruptcy lawyers and researchers see in their practices and studies: homeowners in the suburbs are taking on more and more home-equity debt to stay out of bankruptcy.
