Judge Murphy's daughter is currently an attorney in the firm's appellate litigation division.

The bridegroom, 44, is a paralegal in Manhattan with the intellectual-property litigation division of Reed Smith, a Pittsburgh law firm.

He was a member of the litigation division for four years, three of which he served as division chief.

She is the founder and chief of the city's affirmative litigation division and senior assistant to the corporation counsel, the city's top legal officer.

Mr. Knudsen, 34, works in Manhattan for the state's litigation division.

Mrs. Cosgrove, 30, is a lawyer in the commercial litigation division of the New York City Housing Authority.

The law is "absolutely silent" on the question, said Thomas Crane, chief of the city's general litigation division, who said an appeal was planned.

Her mother is the chief of the affirmative litigation division of the New York City Law Department.

Mrs. Holland, 35, is an assistant general counsel in the litigation division of the New York Life Insurance Company.

"Internet vendors don't notify the customers that that's the case," said Gail Rubin, chief of the affirmative litigation division at the city's Law Department.