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Biography

Abt, John J.  Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of An American Communist Lawyer.  Urbana:
 University of Illinois Press, 1993.    

Abramson, Leslie.  The Defense is Ready: Life in the Trenches of Criminal Law.  New York:
 Simon & Schuster, 1997.    

Anderson, Paul.  Janet Reno: Doing the Right Thing.  New York: J. Wiley, 1994.    

Bailey, F. Lee.  The Defense Never Rests.  New York: Stein & Day, 1971.  
 
Barrett, Paul.  The Good Black:  A True Story of Race in America.  New York: Dutton, 1999.    

Belli, Melvin.  Melvin Belli: My Life on Trial: An Autobiography.  New York: Morrow, 1976.  
 
Carter, Stephen L.  Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby.  New York: Basic Books, 1991.    

Cawley, Linda A.  Legal Beagle: Diary of a Canine Counselor.  Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon
 Press, 1996.    

Clifford, Clark.  Counsel to the President: A Memoir.  New York: Random House, 1991.  
 
Darrow, Clarence.  The Story of My Life.  New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.  

Griswold, Erwin. Ould Fields, New Corne: The Personal Memoirs of a Twentieth Century
 Lawyer.  St. Paul: West, 1992.    

Gunther, Gerald.  Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge.  New York: Knopf, 1994.   
 
Hill, Anita.  Speaking Truth to Power.  New York: Doubleday, 1997.  

Kalman, Laura.  Abe Fortas: A Biography.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.  
 
Kunstler, William M.  My Life as a Radical Lawyer.  Secaucus: Carol Publishing Group, 1994.    

Liman, Arthur L.  Lawyer:  A Life of Counsel and Controversy.  New York: Public Affairs,
 1998.    

Loss, Louis.  Anecdotes of a Securities Lawyer.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.  

Nizer, Louis.  The Jury Returns.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. 

Scott, Austin Wakeman.  Letters From a Law Student to His Family, 1906 - 1908.
 Cambridge, MA:  Harvard Law School, 1974.

Taylor, Lawrence.  The D.A.: A True Story.  New York: William Morrow and Co., 1996.   

Thomas, Evan.  The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams: Ultimate Insider: Legendary Trial
 Lawyer.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.    

Weddington, Sarah.  A Question of Choice.   New York: Putnam, 1992.    

Williams, Gregory. Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He
 Was Black.  New York: Dutton, 1995.    

Williams, Patricia.  The Alchemy of Race and Rights.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
 Press, 1991.