lawyers

The senior U.S. senator from Connecticut provides an insider's glimpse of the Nuremberg trials, based on the letters of his father, a prosecutor at the trials, to his mother, offering important insights into the daily events in the courtroom.

Presents case histories that illustrate the role of defense lawyers in the American judicial system, and looks at the techniques they use in the courtroom.

A biography of the famous American lawyer, orator, and author that covers such historic trials as his defense of John Scopes, Eugene V. Debs, and Leopold-Loeb.

Profiles the life and achievements of Michelle Obama, discussing her childhood, family, education, relationship with Barack Obama, and role as First Lady.

Briefly profiles the life of Michelle Obama, discussing her childhood, family, career as a lawyer, and role as the First Lady.

January 1953 marked the year that Ted Sorensen and the freshman senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, began their professional relationship and personal friendship. The young lawyer from Nebraska worked closely with JFK on his most important speeches, as well as his book, Profiles in Courage. Sorensen followed him to the White House in 1960 and was there for some of the most crucial days in JFK's presidency. After Kennedy's assassination, Sorensen stayed with President Johnson for a few months before leaving to write a biography of JFK but he returned to Washington in 1968 to help run Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign.

An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the African American civil rights attorney who became a prominent Supreme Court Justice.

Text and accompanying photographs present a biography of the life and career of Janet Reno, who is the seventy-eighth attorney general of the United States and the first woman to be named the country's top law enforcer.

Discusses the life of the first African American to serve as a judge on the United States Supreme Court.