Law of the United States.--History.

Robert Heron Bork was serving as Solicitor General of the United States when he was called upon to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. His nomination to the Supreme Court was hotly contested, and ultimately defeated because of his openly conservative opinions.

Clarence Seward Darrow was a well respected labor lawyer before turning his attention to criminal law. As a defense attorney he successfully argued against imposition of the death penalty against Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. In 1925 he defended high school teacher John T. Scopes, who had been charged with violating Tennessee State law by teaching evolution.

Lutie Lytle became the third African-American woman to be licensed to practice law in the United States in 1897. That same year she became the only black female to be practicing law in the United States, after the first two died.