List of lawyers
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This is a list of people within the United States of America 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
- Tim Bowles
- Ben Brafman
- Morgan Chu
- Marcia Clark
- Johnnie Cochran
- David K. Colapinto
- Clarence Darrow
- Dick DeGuerin
- Mahala Ashley Dickerson
- Percy Foreman
- Mark Geragos
- Howard I. Goldstein
- Michael Massey
- Christopher Patterson
- Ford Greene
- Lynne Hermle
- Norton S. Karno
- Michael S. Kelton
- David E. Kendall
- Elias Khoury
- Helena Kobrin
- William M. Kunstler
- Nat Lewin
- Rex E. Lee
- Bessie Margolin
- Thomas Mesereau
- Kendrick Moxon
- Tony Serra
- John W. Simpson (Lawyer)
- Eliot Spitzer
- Jacques Verges
- Jaja Wachuku
- Tom Turner
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for academic or scholarly works
- Finis L. Bates
- Jeremy Bentham
- William Jennings Bryan
- Stephen L. Carter
- Amy Chua
- Alan Dershowitz
- George Barrell Emerson
- Jean-Pierre Jougla
- Abradat Kamalpour
- Lawrence Lessig
- Bruce Terlep
- Catharine MacKinnon
- Wendell Phillips
- Herbert L. Rosedale
- Saint Francis de Sales
- Kathleen Sullivan
- Studs Terkel
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Laurence Tribe
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for fiction writing
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Michael Gilbert
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Grisham
- Patricia J. Duffy
- Franz Kafka
- Henry Cecil Leon
- Arthur Murphy
- Scott Turow
[edit] Lawyers primarily known as poets
- Seth Abramson
- William Cullen Bryant
- John Gower
- James Russell Lowell
- Jean-Baptiste Poquelin ( Molière )
- Lawrence Joseph
- Francis Scott Key
- Lawrence Joseph
- Wallace Stevens
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for their inventions
[edit] Lawyers in politics
- Dennis DeConcini
- Petra Buzková
- Bill Clinton
- Roy Cohn
- W. Mark Felt
- Jim Garrison
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Emil Hácha
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Petr Pithart
- František Ladislav Rieger
- Cyril Svoboda
- Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
- Miguel Estrada
[edit] Lawyers in mass media
- Ann Coulter
- Laura Ingraham
- Michael Kinsley
- Geraldo Rivera
- Charlie Rose
- Tim Russert
- Greta Van Susteren
- Star Jones
[edit] Lawyers primarily known for corrupt practices
[edit] Fictional lawyers
- Apollo Justice
- Rudy Baylor, main character in John Grisham's The Rainmaker
- Elizabeth Canterbury, main character in Canterbury's Law
- Denny Crane
- Judge John Deed
- Dennis Denuto, character in The Castle
- Bobby Donnell
- Lindsay Dole
- Atticus Finch
- Vinny Gambini
- Matt Hawk
- Lionel Hutz
- Perry Mason
- Ben Matlock
- Ally McBeal
- Jack McCoy
- Matt Murdock
- Portia, of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
- Horace Rumpole
- Sylvester J. Sharky
- Alan Shore
- Eli Stone
- Sir Wilfred, lead character in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution
- Elle Woods
- Phoenix Wright
