Famous Dead Lawyers: Recent Lawyer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 3,000 obituaries of famous dead lawyers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Newton N. Minow
American attorneyDied on Saturday May 6th 2023
Sylvia Bacon
American judgeDied on Saturday May 6th 2023
Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell
former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (1997–2004)Died on Friday May 5th 2023
Edward J. Garcia
American juristDied on Friday May 5th 2023
Ronald Rene Lagueux
American juristDied on Thursday May 4th 2023
Jean-Paul Costa
French jurist and the President of the European Court of Human Rights (2007–2011)Died on Friday April 28th 2023
Tony Dreyfus
French lawyer and politicianDied on Thursday April 27th 2023
Alton H. Maddox Jr.
American lawyerDied on Monday April 24th 2023
Randor Guy
Indian lawyerDied on Monday April 24th 2023
Pablo González Casanova
Mexican lawyerDied on Monday April 24th 2023
Lensley Wolfe
Jamaican judgeDied on Wednesday April 19th 2023
Randy Seiler
American attorneyDied on Tuesday April 18th 2023
Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino
Brazilian judge and academicDied on Saturday April 15th 2023
Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury
British solicitor and politicianDied on Wednesday April 12th 2023
Ronald Whyte
American juristDied on Wednesday April 12th 2023
Nicolás Eduardo Becerra
Argentine attorneyDied on Tuesday April 11th 2023
Hervé Temime
French lawyerDied on Tuesday April 11th 2023
Simon France
New Zealand juristDied on Tuesday April 11th 2023
Gad Barzilai
Israeli lawyer and political scientistDied on Monday April 10th 2023
Norman H. Stahl
American juristDied on Monday April 10th 2023
Bola Ajibola
Nigerian juristDied on Sunday April 9th 2023
Ben Ferencz
Hungarian-American lawyer (Einsatzgruppen trial)Died on Saturday April 8th 2023
Roger Vinson
American judgeDied on Monday April 3rd 2023
William M. Barker
American juristDied on Monday April 3rd 2023
T. B. Radhakrishnan
Indian juristDied on Monday April 3rd 2023
Haziqul Khairi
Former Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan. Died on Sunday April 2nd 2023
Edmar Moreira
Brazilian lawyer and politicianDied on Thursday March 30th 2023
Randall Robinson
African-American lawyerDied on Sunday March 26th 2023
Charity Scott
American legal scholarDied on Saturday March 25th 2023
Gladys Kessler
American juristDied on Friday March 24th 2023
Alexander Cameron
British barristerDied on Thursday March 23rd 2023
K. P. Dandapani
Indian lawyerDied on Tuesday March 21st 2023
Bisi Egbeyemi
Nigerian lawyer and politicianDied on Saturday March 18th 2023
Edward Leavy
American juristDied on Thursday March 16th 2023
Pierluigi Onorato
Italian magistrate and politicianDied on Tuesday March 14th 2023
Alfonso Quaranta
Italian magistrateDied on Tuesday March 14th 2023
Toru Miyoshi
Japanese judgeDied on Tuesday March 14th 2023
Kim Yong-chul
South Korean jurist and judgeDied on Tuesday March 14th 2023
Eliseu Padilha
Brazilian lawyer and politicianDied on Tuesday March 14th 2023
Juan Francisco García Sánchez
Spanish judgeDied on Saturday March 11th 2023
Rafael de Mendizábal Allende
Spanish judgeDied on Saturday March 11th 2023
William R. Cotter
American lawyerDied on Friday March 10th 2023
Samaraditya Pal
Indian lawyerDied on Thursday March 9th 2023
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
Indian juristDied on Thursday March 2nd 2023
Ricardo García García-Ochoa
Spanish lawyer and politicianDied on Tuesday February 28th 2023
Victor Babiuc
Romanian jurist and politicianDied on Sunday February 26th 2023
Víctor Gómez Bergés
Dominican lawyerDied on Saturday February 25th 2023
François Couchepin
Swiss lawyer and politicianDied on Friday February 24th 2023
Anthony Arlidge
British barrister and judgeDied on Wednesday February 22nd 2023
Stratis Stratigis
Greek lawyer and politicianDied on Wednesday February 22nd 2023
Pierre Haïk
French lawyerDied on Monday February 20th 2023
Peter Herrndorf
Canadian lawyer and media mogulDied on Saturday February 18th 2023
Mikhael Daher
Lebanese lawyer and politicianDied on Friday February 17th 2023
Malik Mohammad Qayyum
Pakistani lawyerDied on Friday February 17th 2023
Kudarikoti Annadanayya Swamy
Indian juristDied on Tuesday February 14th 2023
Benet Hytner
English barrister and judgeDied on Friday February 10th 2023
Shirley Fulton
American judgeDied on Thursday February 9th 2023
Roberto Purini
Brazilian lawyer and politicianDied on Wednesday February 8th 2023
Lawrence M. McKenna
American judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York)Died on Tuesday February 7th 2023
Harry Whittington
American attorney and political figureDied on Monday February 6th 2023
Mike Schrunk
American district attorney in OregonDied on Thursday February 2nd 2023
Allan Ryan
American attorneyDied on Thursday February 2nd 2023
John Bailey Jones
American judgeDied on Thursday February 2nd 2023
Gaspar Ariño Ortiz
Spanish lawyerDied on Wednesday February 1st 2023
Shanti Bhushan
Indian lawyer and politicianDied on Tuesday January 31st 2023
Gopal Sri Ram
Malaysian judge of the Federal CourtDied on Sunday January 29th 2023
Marcia G. Cooke
American juristDied on Saturday January 28th 2023
Benito Bollati
Italian lawyer and politicianDied on Wednesday January 25th 2023
Peter W. Hutchins
Canadian legal scholarDied on Monday January 23rd 2023
William Thomas Hart
American judgeDied on Saturday January 21st 2023
Robert Hersh
American lawyerDied on Thursday January 19th 2023
Nicola Molè
Italian lawyer and politicianDied on Thursday January 19th 2023
John L. Murray
Irish judgeDied on Wednesday January 18th 2023
Shirley Shackleton
Australian campaigner for justice for the Balibo 5Died on Tuesday January 17th 2023
Guadalupe Rivera Marín
Mexican lawyer and politicianDied on Tuesday January 17th 2023
Latif Afridi
Pakistani lawyer and Pashtun nationalist politicianDied on Monday January 16th 2023
Zdeněk Češka
Czech lawyerDied on Monday January 16th 2023
James L. Morse
American juristDied on Monday January 16th 2023
François Roussely
French government official and magistrateDied on Friday January 13th 2023
Hermann-Josef Blanke
German academic and legal scholarDied on Wednesday January 11th 2023
Theodore R. Newman Jr.
American judgeDied on Wednesday January 11th 2023
William Consovoy
American attorneyDied on Wednesday January 11th 2023
Slaheddine Cherif
Tunisian judge and politicianDied on Monday January 9th 2023
Magomed Abdulaev
Russian lawyer and politicianDied on Friday January 6th 2023
Mahir Muradov
Azerbaijani judgeDied on Friday January 6th 2023
Kim Deok-ju
South Korean lawyer and judgeDied on Thursday January 5th 2023
Frederick J. Marshall
American judgeDied on Wednesday January 4th 2023
Robert Stephan
American attorneyDied on Tuesday January 3rd 2023
Ruslan Khasbulatov dead at age 80, Russian economist and politician
Ruslan Khasbulatov, the Russian economist and politician who served as chairman of Parliament of Russia, died on January 3, 2023, at age 80. A Chechen by descent, he was born…
Salvador Sánchez-Terán
Spanish lawyer and politicianDied on Saturday December 31st 2022
Kenton Edelin
American basketball player (Indiana Pacers) and attorneyDied on Saturday December 31st 2022
Norman A. Mordue
American juristDied on Saturday December 31st 2022