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
* Marcia Clark
* Johnnie Cochran
* David K. Colapinto
* Clarence Darrow
* Dick DeGuerin
* Mahala Ashley Dickerson
* Percy Foreman
* Mark Geragos
* Howard I. Goldstein
* 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
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* 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
* Lawrence Lessig
* 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 fiction writing
* Erle Stanley Gardner
* Michael Gilbert
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* John Grisham
* 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
* Andrea Bocelli
* Ann Coulter
* Larry Elder
* Laura Ingraham
* Michael Kinsley
* Mark Levin
* Geraldo Rivera
* Charlie Rose
* Tim Russert
* Greta Van Susteren
* Star Jones
* Barack Obama
* Hillary Clinton
Lawyers primarily known for corrupt practices
* Howe and Hummel
* Ed Fagan
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
* Layton T. Montgomery (voiced by John Goodman) - Bee Movie
* 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
* Phoenix Wright
 
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