- Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born 20 November 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the incumbent senior U.S. Senator from Delaware. Biden is currently serving his sixth term and is Delaware's longest-serving Senator. He is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the 110th Congress. Biden has served in that position in the past, …
- John O'Quinn
John O'Quinn (born 1941) is a legendary and controversial Texas trial lawyer and a partner at The O'Quinn Law Firm. His firm has made its business in litigation: suing breast implant manufacturers, medical facilities, tobacco companies, etc. O'Quinn received a public reprimand in 1989 from the State Bar after a lengthy investigation into allegations that his firm had wrongly solicited cases.
- John Warner
John Warner (b. January 22, 1943) is an American attorney and judge who is currently one of the five Associate Justices on the Montana Supreme Court. Warner won an unopposed retention vote in 2006; his current term will expire in 2014. Warner was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. He attended Montana State University in Missoula, from which he earned a B.A. in history and political science in 1965. In 1967, he graduated from the University of Montana School of Law.
- Darl McBride
Darl McBride (b. circa 1960) became the CEO of The SCO Group (formerly known as Caldera) on June 28, 2002. During his tenure, Caldera renamed itself The SCO Group, and on March 7, 2003 initiated litigation against IBM regarding the intellectual property status of the Linux operating system.
- Tom Goldstein
Thomas C. Goldstein (Tom Goldstein) was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe, a Washington, D.C. firm specializing in Supreme Court litigation. He is also on the faculty of Stanford and Harvard Law Schools where he teaches courses on Supreme Court litigation.
- Lester Brickman
Lester Brickman is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of the Yeshiva University and a widely-regarded legal scholar. Brickman is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a juris doctor degree from the University of Florida and an LLM degree from Yale Law School. He teaches contracts, legal ethics and Land Use and Zoning at the Cardozo School of Law and has written extensively on asbestos litigation and tort reform.
- Brad Templeton
Brad Templeton (born near Toronto in 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. Templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of Usenet, and in 1989 founded ClariNet, which uses Usenet protocols to distribute news articles, one of the first commercial examples of electronic publishing. In his "Net History in Brief" post, he coined the phrase "Imminent death of net predicted".
- Julie Hilden
From 1996-99, Hilden was a litigation associate at the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly, where she focused on First Amendment issues. Since then, in addition to being a FindLaw columnist, Julie has made occasional appearances to provide legal commentary on Good Morning America, Court TV, CNN, NPR, and Slate.com. Hilden's most recent book is the novel 3 (also available in French and Czech).
- Griffin Bell
Griffin Boyette Bell (born October 31, 1918) is an American lawyer and former United States Attorney General. Born in Americus, Georgia, he attended public schools and Georgia Southwestern College and then the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University. He practiced law at King & Spalding in Georgia from 1948 to 1961, and rejoined the firm just prior to and after his service as Attorney General during the Carter Administration. He is still affiliated with the firm.
- Benjamin Civiletti
Benjamin Richard Civiletti (born July 17, 1935, in Peekskill, New York) served as the United States Attorney General during the last year and a half of the Carter administration, from 1979 to 1981. He is now a senior partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Venable LLP, specializing in commercial litigation and internal investigations and in 2005 became the first U.S. lawyer to charge $1000 an hour. Civiletti was educated at The Johns Hopkins University, …
- John F. Banzhaf III
John Banzhaf is a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. As a driving force behind fast food and tobacco litigation he has been called "the man who wants to sue America" and a "Legal Terrorist". Banzhaf has also done some work in weighted voting systems. He is the inventor of the Banzhaf power index, which analyzes weighted voting systems according to their members' abilities to force quorums. *Prof. Banzhaf's Personal Website
- Margery Bronster
Margery Bronster served as Attorney General of Hawaii from 1995 to 1999, the first woman to hold the office for a full term. During her tenure in the administration of Governor of Hawaii Benjamin J. Cayetano, she won the state a multibillion dollar settlement from tobacco companies and led an investigation into abuses related to the Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate.
- Dorit Beinisch
Dorit Beinisch (born: 1942) is the president of the Supreme Court of Israel. With the retirement of outgoing president Aharon Barak, she was appointed to the position on September 7, 2006. She is the first woman to serve as president of the Supreme Court. <sup></sup> She appears likely to continue Barak's judicial-activist approach. A member of Israel's Supreme Court since 1995, Beinisch has an extensive career in public service.
- Mike Jameson
Michael F. Jameson is the District 6 Council representative for the Nashville Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. He is serving in his first term and is expected to run for reelection in 2007. Mike Jameson is a litigation attorney specializing in civil litigation and a member of North Pursell Ramos and Jameson. He was admitted to the Tennesee Bar in 1990, the US District Court Middle, …
- Yoine Goldstein
Yoine J. Goldstein, LLD (born May 11, 1934) is a Canadian Jewish lawyer, academic, and Senator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, his education includes a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1953, a Bachelor of Civil Law (with honours) from McGill University in 1958, and a Doctor of Laws from the Université de Lyon in 1960. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1961. He specializes in insolvency, bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
- Michael Jabez Foster
Michael Jabez Foster (born February 26, 1946) British politician He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye Michael Foster was born in Hastings, East Sussex and attended the local Hastings Secondary School for Boys and the Hastings Grammar School before attending the University of Leicester where he received a Master of Laws degree. From 1963 to 1972 he worked as a litigation clerk.
- Paul Reiber
Paul Reiber is the Chief Justice on the Vermont Supreme Court. Reiber graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1970 and from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974. Reiber was in private practice in Rutland until becoming a partner in Kenlan, Schweibert & Facey in 1986. He was appointed by Governor Jim Douglas as an Associate Justice in October 2003. Douglas swore him in as Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court on December 17, 2004.
- Thomas Mengler
Thomas Mengler, an expert in procedure and complex litigation, is dean of the law school at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota). Mengler received a BA from Carleton College, a master's in Philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law. Before moving to St. Thomas, he served as a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois College of Law, …
- Steven Chong
Steven Chong SC is a litigation lawyer and managing partner of Rajah & Tann. One of the leading shipping lawyers in Singapore, Chong obtained his LL.B. from the National University of Singapore in 1982. In that same year, he, together with Davinder Singh, V K Rajah and Jimmy Yim, won the Philip C. Jessup Cup. Chong is a member of the Singapore Citizenship Committee of Inquiry, and also Iceland’s Honorary-Consul to Singapore.
- Jim Reekes
Jim Reekes was a programmer at Apple Computer for 12 years. His work has significantly affected operating systems, most notably Mac OS 7 and QuickTime. He also is responsible for creating many of the system sounds for the Apple Macintosh operating system. Some of the most famous creations during that time were the Macintosh OS startup sound and the system sound "sosumi".
- Charles Vance Millar
Charles Vance Millar (1853 - October 31 1926) was a Canadian lawyer and financier.
- Joseph Hodges Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 - 1917), was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was born at Salem, Massachusetts, the son of physician George Choate, the brother of George C. S. Choate, and cousin to Rufus Choate. After graduating from Harvard College in 1852 and Harvard University Law School in 1854, he was admitted first to the Massachusetts (1855) and then (1856) to the New York bar, and entered the law office of Scudder & Carter in New York City.
- Harry P. Jeffrey
Harry Palmer Jeffrey (December 26, 1901-January 4, 1997) was an attorney and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. Harry P. Jeffrey was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of a department store manager, Samuel Jeffrey and his wife Grace. Harry Jeffrey attended Dayton's Patterson Grade School and graduated from Steele High School. He was graduated from Ohio State University at Columbus in 1924, and from the College of Law of the same university in 1926.
- Silvia Corzo
Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto is a Colombian lawyer, journalist and newscaster. Her parents are Mario Corzo and Irene Pinto. After finishing high school, Silvia studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, where she majored in Law. In 1995, during her fifth and final year of college, her family signed her up for the "Señorita Santander" ("Miss Santander") beauty contest, where she was the second runner-up.
- Peter Rodney Llewellyn
Peter Rodney Llewellyn (born November 1, 1947 in Walthamstow, England, and not Wales as he leads people to believe), is an international businessman who is best-known for having nearly persuaded the Russian Space Agency into permitting him to fly on the Space Station Mir in 1999. He had reportedly offered to pay $100 million for the privilege. When he was subsequently ousted from the project he claimed there had been a mistake.
- Samuel Witwer
Samuel Stewart Witwer (born October 20 1977) is an American television actor. Witwer grew up in Glenview, Illinois, outside of Chicago. He attended Glenbrook South High School, during which time he was involved in drama and theater classes, as well as being the lead singer of a high school band. He attended the Juilliard School of Drama. His most recent role was as "Crashdown" on "Battlestar Galactica", and has recently released a CD titled "Colorful of the Stereo."
- Felix Wakefield
Felix Wakefield, (1807 - 1875), was the seventh child of Edward Wakefield and Priscilla Belland, and brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. In 1831 he married Marie Bailley by whom he had nine children. When he left school Felix began working with his father and training as a surveyor and civil engineer. However this was interrupted in 1826 as a result of the scandal surrounding his brothers, Edward Gibbon and William Wakefield and also his step mother.
- Lewis B. Kaden
LEWIS B. KADEN Chairman of the Board of Directors Chairman of the Board of the Markle Foundation, Lewis Kaden is Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer of Citigroup Inc. Previously, he was a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He joined the law firm as counsel in 1982, while he was Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law and Economic Studies at Columbia University, and became a partner in 1984. Mr. Kaden is a director of Arcelor Mittal.
- Edwin Tobolowsky
A graduate of the University of Texas and Southern Methodist University School of Law, Edwin Tobolowsky, besides being a movie producer, was also well known as an attorney specializing in antitrust litigation. In 1960, he appeared before the United States Supreme Court representing theater owners in Dallas who challenged a municipal ordinance that classified movies.
- Boyce Holleman
Boyce Holleman was born and raised in Wiggins, Mississippi, began the practice of law there in May, 1950 and comes from an old pioneer lumbering family in South Mississippi. He and his family moved to Gulfport in 1967, where he resided at the time of his death. He served in World War II as a Naval Aviator, was shot down while making a bomb run at the invasion of Saipan and spent 14 months recovering from severe burns sustained. He retired from the Navy with the rank of Lt. Commander and...
- Marc D. Haefner
- Miguel De Grandy
- Ivars Kalnins
- Marc J. Rochkind
Marc J. Rochkind is a computer programmer, most famous for his textbook "Advanced Unix Programming", regarded as a standard text on how to program to the Unix operating system.
- Joseph Nocera
Joseph Nocera is an award-winning American business journalist and author. He has been a columnist for "The New York Times" since April 2005. Nocera is also a business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. Prior to joining "The New York Times", Nocera worked at "Fortune" from 1995 to 2005, in a variety of positions, finally as editorial director. Nocera was the "Profit Motive" columnist at "GQ" from 1990 to 1995, …
- Aulana Peters
Aulana L. Peters is a director of Northrop Grumman, and holds other corporate positions as well. She was formerly the commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Peters earned degree in philosophy from the College of New Rochelle in New York, and then earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California. Peters joined the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles as an associate in 1973.
- Jack Fields
Jack Milton Fields, Jr. (born February 3, 1952), is a Texas businessman and a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from a Houston-based district. Fields was born in Humble in Harris County to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fields, Sr. He graduated from Humble High School in his hometown in 1970. Fields earned both bachelor of arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Baptist-affiliated Baylor University in Waco in 1974 and 1977, respectively.
- Seymour Geisser
Seymour Geisser (1929 - 2004) was a statistician noted for emphasizing the role of prediction in statistical inference. In his book "Predictive Inference: An Introduction" (CRC Press, 1993), he held that conventional statistical inference about unobservable population parameters amounts to inference about things that do not exist.
- Carole E. Handler
Carole Enid Handler is an American lawyer. She is a vice-chair at Foley & Lardner LLP in the area of intellectual property (IP) litigation. Her experience lie in the areas of trademark, copyright and antitrust laws, particularly as those laws pertain to entertainment and media industry. Handler is the daughter of Columbia Law School professor, the late Milton Handler, and the mother of two daughters, Ilana and Alisa Schoenbach.
- Ram Caspi
Ram Caspi (b. Israel, 1939), is a prominent Israeli attorney. He received his LL.M ("cum laude") from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1962), and was admitted to the Israel Bar in 1964. Caspi's expertise is in international transactions and Mergers & Acquisations, as well as in civil litigation. He is the head of Caspi & Co. and son of the late Adv. Michael Caspi.