In March of this year, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff hired attorney and former federal prosecutor Daniel Goldman as the committee’s senior adviser and director of investigations. Goldman had an impressive success record as a prosecutor for Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office. He has also been a frequent legal analyst on MSNBC. Quote: “Goldman…
Gloria Allred, 78, is a nationally known attorney who often represents clients in high-profile cases — especially cases involving women’s rights issues. She herself speaks openly about her experience being raped, becoming pregnant as a result, and almost dying from terminating the pregnancy. In addition to her women’s rights advocacy, Allred has been a staunch…
A noted legal historian described fifty-five-year-old Jeffrey Rosen as “the nation’s most widely read…
Robert Shapiro, 76, was the original member of what became known as O.J. Simpson’s “Dream Team” of lawyers, when the legendary football player was tried for the brutal murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. No matter what one thinks of the innocent verdict in the 1995 “Trial of the…
Although Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg receives an enormous amount of adulation and media…
Judge Judith Sheindlin hardly needs an introduction here: Her semi-eponymous reality courtroom…
As an attorney, Louis D. Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) fought tirelessly on behalf of progressive causes and against public corruption, powerful corporations and business monopolies. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated him for the U.S. Supreme Court — a nomination that anti-Semites and big-business interests strongly opposed. Once on the Supreme…
Dahlia Lithwick, 50, is a Canadian-American attorney, journalist and writer. A contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate, Lithwick focuses on the law and politics. At Slate, she writes for the “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns; she also hosts the podcast “Amicus.” Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, The Washington…
Attorney Jill Wine-Banks, 74, often appears on MSNBC to provide her insights into the ongoing investigation by special prosecutor Robert Mueller — among other topics. She is noted for giving cogent analyses of the issue involved and for making complex legal subjects understandable to the average layperson. Wine-Banks’ expertise stems from an impressive and trailblazing…
Twenty-five years ago, attorneys Barry Scheck (left) and Peter Neufeld (both now 67) founded the Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal organization dedicated to exonerating convicts who were wrongly convicted of serious crimes in the U.S. As of March 2016, the project accomplished that in 350 cases – with 20 of those prisoners having previously been…
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