List of lawyers

This is a list of people primarily famous as lawyers, ordered within each category alphabetically by last name. This list does not include lawyers famous primarily as politicians. For famous judges, see list of prominent jurists.

Lawyers primarily known for litigation

• David Boies
• Morgan Chu
• Marcia Clark
• Johnnie Cochran
• Clarence Darrow
• David Kendall
• Eliot Spitzer
• Jacques Verges

Lawyers primarily known for academic or scholarly works

• Stephen L. Carter
• Amy Chua
• Alan Dershowitz
• Lawrence Lessig

Lawyers primarily known for fiction writing

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• John Grisham
• Franz Kafka

Lawyers primarily known for their inventions

• Charles Goldfarb
• Chester Carlson

Fictional lawyers

• Vinny Gambini
• Perry Mason
• Ally McBeal
• Sylvester J. Sharky