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3 unusual facts about Litchfield Law School


Chester Pierce Butler

He studied law at Litchfield Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar I

Lucius studied law at Milledgeville, Georgia and in the law school at Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1819, practicing in Milledgeville.

Reading law

In colonial America, as in Britain in that day, law schools did not exist at all until Litchfield Law School was founded in 1773.


Roger Minott Sherman

After about two years he removed to the Litchfield Law School, where he continued his studies with the Honorable Tapping Reeve, while teaching a common school.


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