List of lawyers

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.

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

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
* Saint Thomas More

Lawyers primarily known for transactional work

* Joe Flom
* Marty Lipton
* Abradat Kamalpour
* John Atkin
* Nigel Boardman
* Tim PlewsDavron Akramov (www.norton-legal.com)

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"
* Elizabeth Canterbury, main character in "Canterbury's Law"
* Denny Crane
* Judge John Deed
* Dennis Denuto, character in "The Castle"
* Bobby Donnell
* Billy Flynn
* Lindsay Dole
* Atticus Finch
* Vinny Gambini
* Harry Goldenblatt, character from "Sex and The City"
* Matt Hawk
* Patty Hewes, main character in "Damages"
* Lionel Hutz
* Clair Huxtable
* Perry Mason
* Ben Matlock
* Ally McBeal
* Jack McCoy
* Matt Murdock
* Robert Philip, character in "Enchanted"
* 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
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ee also

*List of disbarred attorneys