- Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator in New York City, first at the Manhattan firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and then at the litigation firm he founded, Greenwald, Christoph. Greenwald litigated numerous high-profile and significant constitutional cases in federal and state courts around the country, including multiple First Amendment challenges.
- Dave Kopel
Dave Kopel is an American author, attorney, political science researcher and contributing editor to several publications. He is currently Research Director of the Independence Institute, Associate Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute, contributor to the National Review magazine and Volokh Conspiracy legal blog. Previously he was Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University, on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, …
- David Iglesias
David Iglesias was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico in August 2001 and confirmed by the US Senate in October 2001. He was one of eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration in 2006 for "performance-related issues" under a controversial clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy). Iglesias had received a positive performance review before he was fired.
- Jack Thompson
John Bruce “Jack” Thompson is an American attorney and activist, based in Coral Gables, Florida. Thompson describes himself as a Christian conservative and a Republican. After an initial foray into politics, Thompson concentrated his legal efforts against obscenity, particularly in rap music and broadcasts by radio personality Howard Stern. More recently, he has focused on violence as well, …
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is the Junior Senator from the state of Rhode Island. A Democrat, he previously served as United States Attorney (1994-1998) and state Attorney General for Rhode Island.Whitehouse was born in New York City, New York, the son of Mary Celine Rand and career diplomat Charles S. Whitehouse , and grandson of diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse . He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and from Yale University in 1978.
- Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano, elected governor that fall, made the newspaper's mission her own. Fixing CPS, she announced, would be one of her top priorities. Children needed to be protected.
- Vincent Bugliosi
Vincent Bugliosi (born August 18, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota) is an American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders.
- Mark John Geragos
Arguably the most well-known, high-profile clientele-laden attorney in Los Angeles and possibly the country, Mark Geragos is the managing partner of the 13-partner firm Geragos & Geragos.
- Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18 1782 - October 24 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System.
- Mary Landrieu
Mary Loretta Landrieu (born November 23, 1955) is the Senior Democratic United States senator from the state of Louisiana, as well as the first, and as of 2007, only woman from that state to be elected to the Senate. She is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and the sister of current Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. By national standards, Landrieu is one of the more conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
- Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Miguel Rivera (born Gerald Michael Riviera on July 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American television journalist, attorney, and former talk show host. He is known to have an affinity for dramatic, high-profile stories, and issues that are often sidelined by traditional media, such as racism and hate-crimes. Rivera hosts the newsmagazine program "Geraldo at Large", and appears regularly on Fox News Channel.
- George Miller
Congressman George Miller is chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. He is a leading advocate in Congress on education, labor, the economy, and the environment. He has represented the 7th District of California in the East Bay of San Francisco since 1975. His district includes portions of Contra Costa and Solano counties, including Richmond, Concord, Martinez, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Benicia and Vacaville. He is a life-long Democrat and Californian.
- Richard M. Daley
Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) is a United States politician, member of the national and local Democratic Party and current mayor of Chicago, Illinois. He was elected mayor in 1989 and reelected in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007. His 2007 re-election set him to become the longest running Mayor in Chicago (a record currently held by his father Richard J. Daley), should he remain in office past December 25, 2010.
- Lynne Stewart
Lynne F. Stewart (born October 8, 1939) is an American radical activist. As an attorney, she represented controversial, and often unpopular, defendants, including black nationalists, members of the Weather Underground, Mafia figures, and convicted terrorists. In 2005, Stewart was accused of helping pass messages from her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, to his followers in al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, …
- Robert Morris
Robert Hunter Morris (born February 15, 1808 in New York, died October 24, 1855 in New York City) was an attorney and Mayor of New York.
- Carol Lam
Carol Lam Former Deputy AG Comey defends Carol Lam , fired U.S. Attorney from San Diego Submitted by crew on 3 May 2007 - 3:52pm. Carol Lam Justice Department US Attorneys
- Buddy Dyer
John H. "Buddy" Dyer is the current mayor of Orlando, Florida, and member of the United States Democratic Party. He began his political career after serving as an attorney and lawyer following his graduations from Brown University and the law school of the University of Florida.
- Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen was an attorney who worked in the United States Department of the Interior during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cohen at the time was allegedly a contact with the Soviet Military Intelligence GRU "Illegal" apparatus. Cohen, according to FBI reports, exchanged information with GRU "Illegal" Officer Ignacy Witczak.
- Jeff Miller
Jeff A. Miller (born November 9, 1962), American politician, was a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate. Miller is an attorney from Cleveland, Tennessee. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. As a state senator, Miller was a strong opponent of a state income tax, …
- Michael Ratner
Michael Ratner (born 1943, Cleveland, Ohio) is an attorney, adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School, and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a non-profit human rights litigation organization based in New York, New York. He was co-counsel in representing the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States Supreme Court, where his clients won a major victory in June, 2004 that gave them the right to test the legality of their detentions.
- Thomas Mesereau
Thomas Arthur Mesereau, Jr. is an American trial attorney and former amateur boxer best known for successfully defending Michael Jackson in the 2005 child molestation trial. His celebrity criminal defense work is balanced by his personal and professional commitment to seeking justice for the legally underserved and "railroaded" victims of overzealous criminal prosecution offices.
- Eddie Jordan
Eddie Jack Jordan, Jr., (born 1952) is the sitting Democratic district attorney for Orleans Parish, Louisiana, the first African American to hold the elected position. Jordan was born to Mr. and Mrs. Eddie J. Jordan, Sr. He grew up in the middle class African American Pontchartrain Park neighborhood of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, …
- Bill Graham
Bill Graham is an American businessman and practicing attorney at Wallace and Graham, PA in Salisbury, North Carolina. He has recently declared his candidacy for Governor of North Carolina.
- Geoffrey Fieger
Geoffrey Fieger is an American attorney. Based in Southfield, Michigan, he represented Dr. Jack Kevorkian in his doctor-assisted suicide trial, and later ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for governor of Michigan in 1998. According to his law firm's own website, he has won more multi-million dollar awards than any other attorney in the country. Fieger is also known for his abrasive nature, …
- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- Fred von Lohmann
Fred von Lohmann is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property matters. He has received the California Lawyer of the Year Award. In that role, he has represented programmers, technology innovators, and individuals in a variety of copyright and trademark litigation.
- James A. Baker
James A. Baker is an American government official at the Department of Justice, serving as Counsel for the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. James A. Baker is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received a J.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan. He joined the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor during the Clinton administration.
- Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller (b July 24, 1967) is a politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is the 36th and current State Treasurer of Kentucky, elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2003.
- Jamie Gorelick
Jamie S. Gorelick is an American attorney and judicial officer who was Deputy Attorney General of the United States during the Clinton administration. She was also appointed by Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
- Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg (born February 14 1947) is a former Governor of New Hampshire and current United States Senator serving as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was a businessman and attorney in Nashua before entering politics.
- Jim Nicholson
Robert James "Jim" Nicholson (born February 4, 1938) is an attorney, real estate developer, and more recently, and a former Republican Party chairman. He has been the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs since January 26, 2005. On on July 17 2007, he announced that he was stepping down as Secretary, effective October 1 2007.
- Matt Gonzalez
Matt Gonzalez (born June 4, 1965) is an American politician, attorney, artist, and editorial writer, who was a prominent figure in San Francisco politics during the years 2000-2004. During those years, he was a member and president of the city's Board of Supervisors. Gonzalez was one of the first Green Party candidates elected to public office in the Bay Area. In 2003, he ran for mayor of San Francisco but lost in a close race to Democrat Gavin Newsom.
- Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law experts and Supreme Court practitioners in the United States. He is the author of "American Constitutional Law" (1978), the most frequently cited treatise in that field, …
- Kevin J. O'Connor
Kevin J. O'Connor is an attorney appointed by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate as Connecticut’s 48th United States Attorney in 2002. As of April 26, 2007, Mr. O'Connor serves as Chief of Staff to United States Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. From January to April 2006, Mr. O'Connor served as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
- Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones is an attorney and Republican activist from Enid, Oklahoma. He is best known for serving as Timothy McVeigh's lead defense lawyer during McVeigh's trial on 11 counts regarding his actions in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Jones is also serving as the attorney for Jordan Edmund, a former House page involved in the Mark Foley scandal. He has run unsuccessfully for public office three times, including a Senate race against David Boren in 1990.
- Rosa Delauro
Rosa DeLauro is a member of the United States House of Representatives. Holding the position since 1991, DeLauro represents Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. She is currently serving her ninth term. Before becoming a member of the House, DeLauro served as Executive Director of EMILY'S List, as well as serving as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd .
- Tom Murphy
Thomas Bailey "Tom" Murphy (b. March 10, 1924) of Georgia was Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1973 till his defeat in the general election of 2002, making him the longest serving Speaker in the history of the state. Murphy was a Democrat first elected to the Georgia House in 1960 and represented the western Georgia town of Bremen. He is an attorney by trade and a graduate of the University of Georgia.
- John McKay
John Larkin McKay (born 19 June 1956 in Seattle, Washington) is a former United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington.
- Ray Beckerman
Ray Beckerman is an attorney in New York City, a partner in the firm of Vandenberg & Feliu, LLP. He is noted for his analysis and commentary on the RIAA's campaign, commenced in 2003, of copyright infringement lawsuits against United States individuals. The RIAA accuses these individuals, some of whom Beckerman represents as legal counsel, of unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing of music. Beckerman was admitted to the bar on January 17, 1979, …
- Steve Novick
Steve Novick is a Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 from the state of Oregon. He is an attorney and former US Department of Justice litigator who led the Love Canal case on behalf of the United States government. He is an advocate of progressive taxation and reforming the Internal Revenue Code to abolish the distinction between ordinary income (earned from labor) and capital gains income (earned from the exploitation of wealth).