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Bank Bill of 1791

The corporation was granted the legal rights of corporate person: "to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record, and any other place whatsoever."

Myron Norton

In a vigilante-type trial in San Francisco, Norton was appointed to be defense attorney for a group of men called The Hounds, who were charged with serious crimes resulting from a rampage against Chilean immigrants.


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Andrew Koenig

Koenig's defense attorney was Bill Paparian, a fellow protester and former mayor of Pasadena.

Charlie Baird

Charlie Baird, an Austin, Texas criminal defense attorney and retired state district court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals associate judge, is best known for his efforts at promoting restorative justice during his time on the bench.

Clark, New Jersey

Jeffrey Lichtman, (born 1965), defense attorney who represented John Gotti, Jr.

Claude W. Pettit College of Law

Benjamin Brafman (b. 1948), criminal defense attorney, attorney for former International Monetary Fund Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Dominique Tricaud

Dominique Tricaud (b, 1955 in Paris, France) is a lawyer whose fame in the United States derives from his being the defense attorney in Paris, France, of Ira Einhorn, the famous environmentalist, convicted in absentia of murder.

More recently, Tricaud was again the defense attorney in a high-profile legal case in France as the lawyer for rapper Hamé of French rap group La Rumeur, who was accused of libeling the police.

E. Brent Bryson

Brent Bryson (born July 19, 1957, in Wise, Virginia) is a nationally recognized criminal defense attorney based out of Las Vegas Nevada, most recently known for his involvement in the O.J. Simpson Las Vegas robbery case, where he defended co-defendant Clarence "C.J" Stewart.

Franz Six

Six was called as one of four witnesses by defense attorney Robert Servatius in the 1961 trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, and gave his testimony by deposition in West Germany.

Future of Freedom Foundation

It was founded by libertarian author and former defense attorney Jacob G. Hornberger in 1989 in order to advance the libertarian philosophy by "providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and a limited government." Sheldon Richman is vice president and editor.

George Lippard

The trial took place only two months after Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," a story based on other murder trials employing the insanity defense; Mercer's defense attorney openly acknowledged the "object of ridicule" which an insanity defense had become.

Greta Van Susteren

A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she appeared as a legal analyst on CNN co-hosting Burden of Proof with Roger Cossack from 1994 to 2002, playing defense attorney to Cossack's prosecutor.

Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa

Dhinsa was represented by high-profile defense attorney Gerald Shargel, but was found guilty of murder and racketeering after an eight-week trial.

Hillcrest Lutheran Academy

Hillcrest has had some notable alumni including former Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army, General Gaylord T. Gunhus, and Atlanta-based defense attorney Joseph Romond.

Jane Branstetter Stranch

Stranch was one of several candidates whom NashvillePost.com had reported in April 2009 was being considered for the seat, along with U.S. District Judge William Joseph Haynes, Jr., U.S. District Judge Bernice B. Donald, Nashville criminal defense attorney David Raybin and Vanderbilt University Law School Professor Lisa Schultz Bressman.

Jeffrey Colwell

Colwell served as the senior Defense attorney for Guantanamo captive Ahmed Ghailani, prior to his transfer to the US civilian justice system.

Jimmy Hoffa

Appeals filed by his chief counsel, St. Louis defense attorney Morris Shenker, reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lynn Stewart

Lynne Stewart, former defense attorney for Abdel-Rahman, the Twin Towers bomber

Morris Pashman

In the 1978 "Dr. X" murder trial of Mario Jascalevich, Judge Theodore Trautwein had ordered that reporter M. A. Farber of The New York Times be sent to jail for refusing to turn over notes to the defense attorney.

Nancy Seaman

On November 4, 2010, her conviction was overturned by United States federal judge Bernard A. Friedman on on the basis that her defense attorney were not fully able to develop their theory of battered woman syndrome.

Nicholas Grabowsky

In June 1995, Carol went missing from her adult education services school, and Nicholas devoted his time to search for her, along with local news media, a host of volunteer searchers, and the assistance of such celebrity personalities as Charlotte Blasier, wife of O. J. Simpson defense attorney Bob Blasier.

Ohio Northern University

Benjamin Brafman, a prominent criminal defense attorney based in New York.

Omar al-Faruq

The U.S. did not acknowledge his escape until November when they were unable to produce him as a witness called by defense attorney Michael Waddington, in the trial of a U.S. sergeant, Alan Driver, accused of abuse at the prison.

Portland Rum Riot

The prosecutor was former U.S. Attorney General Nathan Clifford, and the defense attorney was later U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden.

Rosemary Murphy

The following year, Murphy appeared in the television film A Case of Rape, playing a ruthless defense attorney who brutally cross-examines rape victim Ellen Harrod (Elizabeth Montgomery) and wins an acquittal for the man who attacked her.

Rush to Judgment

It has been shown on BBC TV as part of the much longer (300 minutes) film entitled The Death of Kennedy. Included are several video clips showing how Dealey Plaza existed in 1963 and 1966, clips of Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas Chief of Police Jesse Curry, Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, Jack Ruby, and his defense attorney Melvin Belli.

The Case of the Velvet Claws

The Case of the Velvet Claws is a 1936 mystery film, based on the first Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardner and featuring the fourth and final appearance of Warren William as defense attorney Mason.

The Fifth Witness

The Fifth Witness is the 23rd novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the fourth starring appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael "Mickey" Haller.

The Lincoln Lawyer

Moderately successful criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates around Los Angeles County out of a Lincoln Town Car (hence the title) driven by a former client working off his legal fees.

The New Perry Mason

The New Perry Mason is a revival of the long-running hit television series about Erle Stanley Gardner's brilliant defense attorney.

The Reversal

The Reversal is the 22nd novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the third starring appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael "Mickey" Haller.

Web of Deception

With the aide of defense attorney Larry Lake (West Wing’s Bradley Whitford) and police detective Fracinetti (The Wire’s Paul Ben-Victor) Benesch uses his psychiatric knowledge to unravel the nefarious web.

Workers' Youth League affair

Bjørn Jarle Rødberg Larsen, treasurer of Oslo AUF from 1992 to 1994, had at first denied to testify in the case, after advice from his defense attorney, but chose to change his mind.

Workgroup

Courtroom Workgroup, an informal arrangement between a criminal prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and the judicial officer