Famous Dead Lawyers: Recent Lawyer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 3,000 obituaries of famous dead lawyers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
M. Y. Eqbal
Indian juristDied on Friday May 7th 2021
Urbano Marín
Chilean judgeDied on Thursday May 6th 2021
Jos De Man
Belgian lawyerDied on Monday May 3rd 2021
Joseph W. Hatchett
American attorneyDied on Saturday May 1st 2021
Wencelito Andanar
Filipino lawyerDied on Friday April 30th 2021
Soli Sorabjee
Indian juristDied on Friday April 30th 2021
Harrison Salcedo
Ecuadorian lawyer; murderedDied on Thursday April 29th 2021
Walmir Oliveira da Costa
Brazilian judgeDied on Thursday April 29th 2021
Thomas R. Berger
Canadian politician and juristDied on Thursday April 29th 2021
George P. Kazen
American juristDied on Wednesday April 28th 2021
Ali Yahia Abdennour
Algerian lawyerDied on Sunday April 25th 2021
Mohan Shantanagoudar
Indian juristDied on Saturday April 24th 2021
Harry W. Wellford
American federal judgeDied on Wednesday April 21st 2021
Sylvia Van Meirvenne
Belgian politician and juristDied on Wednesday April 21st 2021
Roland Weyl
French militant and lawyerDied on Tuesday April 20th 2021
Leïla Bahria
Tunisian politician and judgeDied on Tuesday April 20th 2021
Manoj Kumar Mukherjee
Indian juristDied on Monday April 19th 2021
Hisham Bastawisy
Egyptian juristDied on Saturday April 17th 2021
Sir Harry Ognall
English juristDied on Saturday April 17th 2021
Adelino Sitoy
Filipino lawyerDied on Saturday April 17th 2021
Tor Kjærvik
Norwegian lawyerDied on Tuesday April 13th 2021
Pedro Soares Martínez
Portugal politician and lawyerDied on Tuesday April 13th 2021
Todd J. Campbell
American politician and JudgeDied on Monday April 12th 2021
Nelson Bornier
Brazilian politician and lawyerDied on Sunday April 11th 2021
Fred Erdman
Belgian lawyer and politicianDied on Saturday April 10th 2021
Ramsey Clark
American lawyerDied on Saturday April 10th 2021
Rubens Recalcatti
Brazilian politician and lawyerDied on Saturday April 10th 2021
Abdul Hamid Sebba
Brazilian lawyer and politicianDied on Saturday April 10th 2021
Emmanuel Gaillard
French lawyerDied on Saturday April 10th 2021
Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa
Iraqi judge (Trial of Saddam Hussein)Died on Thursday April 8th 2021
Howard Weitzman
American lawyerDied on Thursday April 8th 2021
Paulo Medina
Brazilian judgeDied on Wednesday April 7th 2021
Midwin Charles
American lawyerDied on Wednesday April 7th 2021
Julen Madariaga
Spanish Basque nationalist militant and lawyerDied on Tuesday April 6th 2021
Alain Bloch
Belgian judgeDied on Monday April 5th 2021
Gregory K. Scott
American state judgeDied on Friday April 2nd 2021
Mary Mullarkey
American state judgeDied on Thursday April 1st 2021
Paul Feinman
American attorney and associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals (2017–2021)Died on Wednesday March 31st 2021
Christof Heyns
South African human rights lawyerDied on Wednesday March 31st 2021
Carlo Mosca
Italian prefect and magistrateDied on Wednesday March 31st 2021
Surinder Singh Nijjar
Indian juristDied on Friday March 26th 2021
Aurelio Desdentado
Spanish judgeDied on Thursday March 25th 2021
Kermit Edward Bye
American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2000–2016)Died on Tuesday March 23rd 2021
Muchtar Pakpahan
Indonesian lawyer and labor activistDied on Monday March 22nd 2021
Jutta Stender-Vorwachs
German legal scholarDied on Sunday March 21st 2021
Helenês Cândido
Brazilian politician and lawyerDied on Thursday March 18th 2021
Bruno Tinti
Italian magistrate and journalistDied on Wednesday March 17th 2021
Chester Porter
Australian barristerDied on Wednesday March 17th 2021
Silvio Favero
Brazilian politician and lawyerDied on Sunday March 14th 2021
John Albert Nordberg
American judgeDied on Sunday March 14th 2021
Sir Jeremiah Harman
English juristDied on Saturday March 13th 2021
Terrence F. McVerry
American judgeDied on Friday March 12th 2021
Peter W. Hall
American juristDied on Thursday March 11th 2021
Anshuman Singh
Indian juristDied on Monday March 8th 2021
Nwali Sylvester Ngwuta
Nigerian jurist and justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (since 2011)Died on Sunday March 7th 2021
Joaquin Bernas
Filipino Jesuit lawyerDied on Saturday March 6th 2021
Gerald Kogan
American judgeDied on Friday March 5th 2021
Mwilanya Asani William
Congolese attorney (Assassination of Luca Attanasio)Died on Friday March 5th 2021
Jonathan Temm
New Zealand lawyerDied on Friday March 5th 2021
János Szabó
Hungarian juristDied on Tuesday March 2nd 2021
Sir John Bailey
British lawyer and public servantDied on Tuesday March 2nd 2021
János Németh
Hungarian juristDied on Tuesday March 2nd 2021
Claudette White
American Quechan tribal judgeDied on Monday March 1st 2021
Philip Ray Martinez
American federal judgeDied on Monday March 1st 2021
Artidjo Alkostar
Indonesian judgeDied on Sunday February 28th 2021
Joel A. Pisano
American federal judgeDied on Sunday February 28th 2021
Tarek El-Bishry
Egyptian thinker and judgeDied on Friday February 26th 2021
Julio Márquez de Prado
Spanish judgeDied on Tuesday February 23rd 2021
Jean-Yves Moyart
French criminal lawyer and bloggerDied on Tuesday February 23rd 2021
Lawrence Otis Graham
American attorney and authorDied on Sunday February 21st 2021
Bobby Lee Cook
American lawyer (Wayne WilliamsDied on Friday February 19th 2021
Sleiman Traboulsi
Lebanese politician and magistrateDied on Tuesday February 16th 2021
William Macpherson
Scottish juristDied on Monday February 15th 2021
P. B. Sawant
Indian juristDied on Monday February 15th 2021
Javier Neves
Peruvian lawyer and academicDied on Friday February 12th 2021
Thomas Rutherford Brett
American juristDied on Wednesday February 10th 2021
Cathy Cochran
American judgeDied on Monday February 8th 2021
Elizabeth Muyovwe
Zambian juristDied on Saturday February 6th 2021
Susan Bayh
American attorney and socialiteDied on Saturday February 6th 2021
Jack Palladino
American private investigator and attorneyDied on Monday February 1st 2021
Morton Ira Greenberg
American federal judgeDied on Monday February 1st 2021
Constance Isherwood
Canadian lawyerDied on Saturday January 30th 2021
Stephan P. Mickle
American judgeDied on Saturday January 30th 2021
Blas Camacho
Spanish lawyer and politicianDied on Thursday January 28th 2021