Lawyer biography books
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Because of the relative paucity of great works of American legal history (aside from Supreme Court history, long the focus of American legal historians, to the detriment of other equally significant areas of legal history scholarship), generations of lawyers have learned their legal history by reading biographies of great judges and lawyers. Biography can also play an important role in the formation of professional values by providing role models - and models of what to avoid.
One good place to start is with a biography of Thurgood Marshall, arguably America’s single most influential lawyer, who fought racial discrimination in the South as head of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, argued and won Brown v. Board of Education before the United States Supreme Court, and then served on the Court for several tumultuous decades. The definitive biography of Marshall has not yet been written. Two useful and interesting works, both valuable, are Carl T. Rowan’s Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall (1993) and Juan Williams’ Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1998).
One might also read some of the excellent biographies of America’s judicial giants: Jean Edward Smith’s John M
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Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
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The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal law, and the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. The Secret Barrister writes for many publications, including The Times, the Guardian, New Statesman, iNews, Esquire and Counsel magazine. In 2016 and 2017, the Secret Barrister was named Independent Blogger of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards. In 2018, the Secret Barrister was named Legal Personality of the Year at the Law Society Awards. Their first book, The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken, was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller and has been in the top-ten bestseller list for more than a year. It won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award 2018, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018. Their second book, Fake Law, was published in 2020.
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