List of lawyers 524773 223773248 2008-07-05T18:59:38Z 70.46.102.235 /* Lawyers primarily known for litigation */ {{cleanup|date=February 2008}} This is a list of people within the [[United States of America]] primarily famous as [[lawyer]]s, ordered within each category alphabetically by last name. This list does not include lawyers famous primarily as [[politician]]s. For famous [[judge]]s, see [[list of prominent jurists]]. ==Lawyers primarily known for litigation== * [[Roy Black (attorney)|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 (lawyer)|Elias Khoury]] * [[Helena Kobrin]] * [[William Kunstler|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]] ==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]] ==Lawyers primarily known for transactional work== * [[Joe Flom]] * [[Marty Lipton]] * [[Abradat Kamalpour]] * [[John Atkin]] * [[Nigel Boardman]] * [[Tim Plews]] ==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]] ==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]] ==Lawyers primarily known for their inventions== * [[Chester Carlson]] * [[Charles Goldfarb]] ==Lawyers in politics== * [[Dennis DeConcini]] * [[Petra Buzková]] * [[Bill Clinton]] * [[Roy Cohn]] * [[Miguel Estrada]] * [[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]] ==Lawyers in mass media== * [[Ann Coulter]] * [[Laura Ingraham]] * [[Michael Kinsley]] * [[Geraldo Rivera]] * [[Charlie Rose]] * [[Tim Russert]] * [[Greta Van Susteren]] * [[Star Jones]] ==Lawyers primarily known for corrupt practices== * [[Howe and Hummel]] ==Fictional lawyers== * [[Apollo Justice]] * Rudy Baylor, main character in [[John Grisham]]'s ''[[The Rainmaker (John Grisham)|The Rainmaker]]'' * Elizabeth Canterbury, main character in ''[[Canterbury's Law]]'' * [[Denny Crane]] * [[Judge John Deed]] * Dennis Denuto, character in ''[[The Castle (film)|The Castle]]'' * [[Bobby Donnell]] * [[Lindsay Dole]] * [[Atticus Finch]] * [[Vinny Gambini]] * [[Matt Hawk]] * [[Lionel Hutz#Lionel Hutz|Lionel Hutz]] * [[Perry Mason]] * [[Ben Matlock]] * [[Ally McBeal]] * [[Jack McCoy]] * [[Matt Murdock]] * [[Portia (Merchant of Venice)|Portia]], of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' * [[Horace Rumpole]] * [[Lawyer Sharky|Sylvester J. Sharky]] * [[Alan Shore]] * [[Eli Stone]] * Sir Wilfred, lead character in [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[Witness for the Prosecution]]'' * [[Elle Woods]] * [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright]] ==See also== *[[List of disbarred attorneys]] ==External links== *[http://www.legalmenu.com/index.php Legalmenu Law Firms Worldwide] [[Category:Lawyers|*]] [[Category:Lists of legal professionals|Lawyers]] [[cs:Seznam právníků a právniček]] [[fr:Liste de personnalités ayant exercé la profession d'avocat]]