Appreciating Phyllis Randolph Frye The American Bar Association’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity has announced that Phyllis Randolph Frye, a City of Houston Municipal Courts associate judge who reportedly is the first openly…
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Who Was John McClellan, and Why Is His Office in Old Sturbridge Village? A desk, a fireplace, and a bookcase full of volumes of American Jurist mark the 1796 office of lawyer John McClellan of…
On July 19, 1984, the Democratic National Convention officially nominated Geraldine Ferraro, a first-generation Italian-American lawyer and Congressional Representative from Queens, for vice president of the United States. A 1960 graduate of Fordham Law School…
Who Was the Bewigged, Berobed John Watts? Visit New York City’s Trinity Church graveyard looking for famous lawyers of eras past, and you will likely first see a greening statue of an authoritative figure looming…
Thoughts on the Passing of a Lawyer, Convict, Crusader, Human Somewhere in the sphere of women I admire floats Lynne Stewart, whom I first became aware of in the 1990s. She seemed then one of…
Marking the Passing of E. Clinton Bamberger Say you happen to be standing trial for murder. Let’s suppose that somehow you got yourself entangled in a bit of a mess and that you weren’t alone when…
The legal community suddenly lost one bright light—acclaimed lobbyist Thomas (Tommy) H. Boggs, Jr.—on a September day in 2014. Like or dislike his politics or his clients or his law firm management skills, but appreciate…
That recently deceased Cuban leader Fidel Castro had gotten a law degree before leading a revolution in his own country triggers all sorts of questions about the role of law and of lawyers, of bar…
