List of lawyers
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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]
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