Famous/infamous lawyers and where they went to school..... Forum

[jp0094]

Eric Holder - Columbia
Judge Friendly - Harvard
Teddy Roosevelt - Columbia, but later dropped out in pursuit of politics

[jwrit07]

Star Jones - University of Houston

[NY88]

Harry Lipsig, the Dean of Civil Litigators, Brooklyn Law School.
Marvyn Kornberg, NY criminal heavyweight, Brooklyn Law School.
Joe Tacopina, NY criminal lawyer, Quinnipiac.
Bob Sullivan, NY civil heavyweight,St.John's.

[danielle77]

i dont know if these two were mentioned:

howard weitzman, usc
gloria allred, loyola

this also lists all of the nfl cheerleaders that are lawyers:

http://ultimatecheerleaders.com/site-map/lists/lawyers/

[Matlock31]

Bobby Donnell (The Practice) - Suffolk

[Spaceman Spiff]

Rod Blagojevich - Pepperdine

[Kobe_Teeth]

I read the name of Lil Wayne's lawyer in his recent troubles in the law. I looked her up...St. John's.

[DeCivitate]

Arthur Miller - Harvard
Antonin Scalia (J. dissenting) - Harvard
John Roberts - Harvard
Holmes, J. - Harvard
Harlan, J. - Harvard
Haavaad

[yours]

eddie eagan: harvard
gold medalist at the winter and summer olympics.

[mayosmith]

Gerald R. Ford: YLS

[lawlife2010]

Drew Rosenhaus - Duke
Scott Boras - McGeorge School of Law

Not gonna lie - I had to google "McGeorge School of Law" under the impression it was going to land in some urban dictionary definition. It's real.

Justice Kennedy attended McGeorge as well

[soyable]

Ronan Farrow (son of Mia and Woody Allen) was admitted to Yale Law at SIXTEEN. He deferred a year and graduated at age 20.

[ughOSU]

Not sure if this has been said yet, but...
Jim Cramer (yes, the crazy Mad Money guy), Harvard Law.

If I recall correctly Chief Justice John Roberts at one point called Cramer the smartest person he's ever met.

interesting wikipedia article on him, if anyone actually still thinks he's just some TV idiot douche: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cramer

[fortissimo]

Is it sad that I haven't heard of the vast majority of these people? "Famous" or am I just ignorant?

Brian Leiter - University of Michigan

[Spaceman Spiff]

Drew Rosenhaus - Duke
Scott Boras - McGeorge School of Law

Not gonna lie - I had to google "McGeorge School of Law" under the impression it was going to land in some urban dictionary definition. It's real.

Justice Kennedy attended McGeorge as well

Justice Kennedy went to Harvard. He was a professor at McGeorge.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Justice Robert Jackson - last SCOTUS justice not to attend law school

[CyLaw]

Don't know if this one was been done.

Mohandas Gandhi, University College London

[MBZags]

Len Elmore, the former NBA player and current NCAA basketball broadcaster, went to Harvard.

[mommamia]

Dan Quayle- IU-Indy!

[ppa840]

Don’t know if this one has been said, but Demetri Martin dropped out of NYU

[deadpanic]

I'm bumping this to add:

Paul Simon briefly attended Brooklyn Law School, but dropped out.

George Wallace - Alabama

[Slimpee]

Warren Burger, Chief Justice SCOTUS-St. Paul College of Law, now William Mitchell (the library is named after him)
Former Sen. Norm Coleman (lost closely contested MN election to Al Franken)-U of Iowa. NOTE: Upon spending 15 seconds on Wikipedia I should note that he spent two years at Brooklyn Law School before transferring to Iowa.

[CG614]

Alexander Hamilton - King's College (now Columbia)
FDR- Columbia
Marty Lipton - NYU

[sdv]

Alexander Hamilton - Columbia

Columbia = TTT for bullet dodging

[CG614]

Alexander Hamilton - Columbia

Columbia = TTT for bullet dodging

Alexander Hamilton played a major role in the revolutionary war. He was General Washington's right hand man, and lead the troops at Yorktown, which was the clinching victory of the war. I don't get your reference there.