In the last year, the bureau has lost, either to buyout, dismissal or the competition: its longtime chief, Frank Sesno, and its two legal analysts, Roger Cossack and Greta Van Susteren.

However, to quote ESPN legal analyst Roger Cossack in referring to the Barry Bonds's acquittal on one of the perjury counts despite a 10-1 vote to convict:

"Whoever he picks has to be prepared to sit there and do a lot of the grunt work and let Bob Shapiro be the star," said Roger Cossack, a criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles.

On November 30, 2000, Roger Cossack interviewed John Ashcroft, who had just been defeated by Mel Carnahan.

Burden of Proof was a show that discussed legal issues of the day, hosted by Greta Van Susteren and Roger Cossack.

Roger Cossack is a legal analyst for ESPN, TruTV, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law.

One day not long ago, a local lawyer, Jay Jaffe, approached Roger Cossack, another member of the bar, in Nate and Al's, the venerable Beverly Hills delicatessen and agora.

A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she appeared as a legal analyst on CNN co-hosting Burden of Proof with Roger Cossack from 1994 to 2002, playing defense attorney to Cossack's prosecutor.

And her former colleague Roger Cossack no longer worked for the network.