507 ABA Journal Obituaries articles.
A left-wing lawyer who helped win an acquittal for Angela Davis has died after suffering a stroke.
Lawyer Doris Brin Walker died at the age of 90, the Aug 19, 2009 3:50 PM CDT
Pioneering civil rights lawyer Margaret Bush Wilson, the first woman to chair the NAACP’s board of directors, has died at the age of 90.
Wilson graduated from Lincoln University School…
Aug 13, 2009 11:40 AM CDT
An Austin, Texas, solo practitioner with a famous son and a controversial business has died, and the coroner’s office is investigating the cause.
Lawyer Mina Brees, a former president of…
Aug 11, 2009 2:17 PM CDT
A professor emeritus who taught at Stanford Law School since 1969 has died from injuries he suffered in a July 14 bike accident.
John Barton wrote the undergraduate textbook International…
Aug 7, 2009 3:05 PM CDT
Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi, the first Japanese-American judge appointed to the federal bench, has died at the age of 78.
Takasugi was appointed to the bench in 1976…
Aug 6, 2009 6:16 PM CDT
A 71-year-old energy lawyer at Wyatt Tarrant & Combs in Lexington, Ky., died Tuesday in a Tennessee car accident.
The lawyer, Richard C. Ward, had been…
Aug 5, 2009 2:39 PM CDT
Peter Riley, the chairman of Thompson & Knight, has died of complications from cancer at the age of 53.
A message posted to the law firm’s website called…
Aug 4, 2009 4:00 PM CDT
Lightning struck and killed a vacationing Justice Department lawyer Monday as he was out for an evening jog on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Matthew Glomb, 49, of Woodbridge,…
Jul 29, 2009 11:22 AM CDT
Andrew Berry, the 69-year-old chairman of McCarter & English, died Friday while at his vacation home in Maine.
Berry helped expand McCarter & English into a “regional powerhouse” and “played…
Jul 27, 2009 5:26 PM CDT
Prominent Baton Rouge, La., business lawyer Gordon Pugh, who practiced law for 44 years, killed himself on Monday.
Pugh’s son, Gordon Pugh Jr., had committed suicide last year, the Jul 22, 2009 11:29 AM CDT
Well-known Florida trial lawyer Glenn M. Burton died Wednesday, not long after he was tapped by Florida’s governor to serve on the Tampa Sports Authority Board. He was 51.
The…
Jun 26, 2009 11:25 AM CDT
The death of one of South Carolina’s most dogged prosecutors has left the Palmetto State in disbelief.
Jennifer Evans, who headed the state attorney general’s criminal section and was the…
Jun 23, 2009 11:03 AM CDT
San Francisco environmental justice lawyer Luke Cole has died in a car crash while vacationing with his wife in Uganda.
Cole was 46, the San Francisco… Jun 9, 2009 11:53 AM CDT
Jun 9, 2009 11:53 AM CDT
An activist lawyer who pioneered the battered spouse defense died last Friday in a Utah plane crash.
Lawyer Susan Jordan, 67, was a passenger in a two-seater plane flown by…
Jun 3, 2009 11:26 AM CDT
Boston police are reopening the 20-year-old case of a Florida lawyer who was killed after checking into the city’s Lenox Hotel.
Karen Edwards, 34, was stabbed in the chest and…
Jun 2, 2009 3:52 PM CDT
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