Preface: Atticus Finch, American folk hero -- Introduction: lawyers and healing the fracturing of the Union -- Abraham Lincoln : "the greatest lawyer in history" -- Gardiner Greene Hubbard : funding innovation and founding the National Geographic Society -- Robert Jackson : lawyer at Nuremberg -- Russell Baker : McLaw -- Thurgood Marshall : lawyer of record -- Joseph Flom : from sewer rat to takeover king -- Joe Jamail : the king of torts -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one) -- Johnnie Cochran : "if it does not fit, you must acquit" -- Larry Sonsini : taking calls from the founders at midnight -- Catharine Alice MacKinnon : pioneer of the #MeToo revolution -- David McCraw : writing truth to power -- Appendix A. Abraham Lincoln : lawyer, freethinker, believer, implorer -- Appendix B. Catharine A. MacKinnon, brief opposing certiorari at United States Supreme Court, Kadic v. Karadzic.
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