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15 of the Most Famous American Lawyers
Originally published by Vanessa R on April 2022. Edited by Charity K on 2023.
From ancient Rome’s and Greece’s finest orators (such as Cicero and Demosthenes) to modern-day attorneys (such as Robert Kardashian and Alan Dershowitz), there have been many prominent lawyers you may have heard or read about.
In this article, we’ll look at fifteen well-known attorneys from both the past and the present United States.
It’s also fascinating to see how many presidents have hailed from the legal profession.
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1. Robert Shapiro
Robert Shapiro was born on September 2, 1942, in Plainfield, New Jersey.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Business in 1965 and a law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1968. He distinguished himself from his peers at Loyola by winning two Amer