List of lawyers
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This is a list of people primarily famous as lawyers, ordered within each category alphabetically by last name. This list does not include lawyers famous primarily as politicians. For famous judges, see list of prominent jurists.
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for litigation
- Roy Black
- David Boies
- Ben Brafman
- Bino George
- Randy Burton
- Morgan Chu
- Marcia Clark
- Johnnie Cochran
- David K. Colapinto
- Clarence Darrow
- Dennis DeConcini
- Dick DeGuerin
- Percy Foreman
- Mark Geragos
- Howard I. Goldstein
- Lynne Hermle
- David E. Kendall
- William M.Kunstler
- Thomas Mesereau
- Gene Porter
- Eliot Spitzer
- Jacques Verges
- Jaja Wachuku
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for academic or scholarly works
- Stephen L. Carter
- Amy Chua
- Alan Dershowitz
- George Barrell Emerson
- Lawrence Lessig
- Kathleen Sullivan
- Laurence Tribe
- Studs Terkel
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for fiction writing
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Michael Gilbert
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Grisham
- Franz Kafka
- Henry Cecil Leon
- William H. Rhodes
- Scott Turow
[edit] Lawyers primarily known as poets
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for their inventions
The following lawyers are well-known for non-litigation work in law enforcement — that is, they were not prosecutors.
[edit] Lawyers in mass media
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for corrupt practices
[edit] Fictional lawyers
- Jimmy Berluti
- Denny Crane
- Judge John Deed
- Dennis Denuto, character in the Castle
- Bobby Donnell
- Lindsay Dole
- Atticus Finch
- Ellenor Frutt
- Vinny Gambini
- Lionel Hutz
- Perry Mason
- Ben Matlock
- Ally McBeal
- Jack McCoy
- Portia, of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
- Horace Rumpole
- Sylvester J. Sharky
- Alan Shore
- Jamie Stringer
- Rebecca Washington
- Sir Wilfred, lead character in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution
- Elle Woods
- Phoenix Wright
- Claire Wyatt
- Eugene Young
