Famous Dead Lawyers: Recent Lawyer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 3,000 obituaries of famous dead lawyers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
James Herbert Laycraft
Canadian lawyer and judge
Died on Wednesday August 5th 2015
Charles Goldstein
American lawyer
Died on Thursday July 30th 2015
Giovanni Conso
Italian jurist and former Minister of Justice
Died on Sunday August 2nd 2015
Barbara Calvert
British barrister
Died on Wednesday July 22nd 2015
Jeffrey S. Lyons
Canadian lawyer
Died on Sunday July 26th 2015
William Lynch
American federal mafia prosecutor
Died on Monday July 13th 2015
Jim Mitchell
horse breeder and judge of the Louisiana 30th Judicial District in Leesville
Died on Friday July 24th 2015
P. A. Sebastian
Indian civil liberties activist and attorney (Bombay Riots)
Died on Thursday July 23rd 2015
Christopher M. Fairman
American legal scholar
Died on Wednesday July 22nd 2015
Loredana Nesci
American lawyer
Died on Wednesday July 22nd 2015
Ron Cannon
Australian criminal lawyer (Kevin Barlow
Died on Monday July 20th 2015
Adam Bram
Ameican attorney
Died on Monday July 6th 2015
Bryan O’Linn
South African-born Namibian jurist and human rights advocate
Died on Sunday July 19th 2015
George Gardner Fagg
American federal judge
Died on Tuesday July 14th 2015
Odd Seim-Haugen
Norwegian barrister and sports official
Died on Friday July 3rd 2015
Harry Stowers
American judge
Died on Wednesday July 8th 2015
Lawrence K. Karlton
American federal judge
Died on Saturday July 11th 2015
Gordon Thompson, Jr.
American judge
Died on Sunday July 5th 2015
Sir Ronald Davison
New Zealand judge
Died on Thursday July 2nd 2015
Nedelcho Beronov
Bulgarian jurist
Died on Saturday July 4th 2015
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal
Indian judge
Died on Friday July 3rd 2015
Harvey McGregor
British barrister
Died on Saturday June 27th 2015
Nasser al-Hafi
Egyptian lawyer and politician
Died on Wednesday July 1st 2015
Sir Graham Dorey
British judge
Died on Thursday June 25th 2015
Hisham Barakat
Egyptian prosecutor
Died on Monday June 29th 2015
António Marques Mendes
Portuguese lawyer and politician
Died on Monday June 15th 2015
Bryan Vaughan
Australian politician and lawyer
Died on Wednesday June 17th 2015
Tom Stagg
Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Died on Tuesday June 23rd 2015
Mike Redmayne
British jurist
Died on Wednesday June 10th 2015
Dieter Medicus
German jurist
Died on Saturday June 6th 2015
Harold LeDoux
American cartoonist (Judge Parker)
Died on Sunday June 7th 2015
Peter van Wijmen
Dutch lawyer
Died on Monday June 8th 2015
Sir Peter Williams
New Zealand lawyer
Died on Tuesday June 9th 2015
Vincent Bugliosi
American attorney and author (Helter Skelter)
Died on Saturday June 6th 2015
Sir Kenneth Jacobs
Australian judge
Died on Sunday May 24th 2015
Thorbjørn Gjølstad
Norwegian jurist and civil servant
Died on Tuesday May 26th 2015
Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths
British jurist and law lord
Died on Saturday May 30th 2015
Carlos Irizarry Yunqué
Puerto Rican judge
Died on Saturday May 23rd 2015
Daniel Meltzer
American lawyer
Died on Sunday May 24th 2015
Bharat Raj Upreti
Nepali judge (Supreme Court of Nepal)
Died on Sunday May 24th 2015
Sir Thomas Gault
New Zealand jurist
Died on Thursday May 21st 2015
Mariana Pfaelzer
American federal judge
Died on Thursday May 14th 2015
Harry Martin
American judge
Died on Sunday May 3rd 2015
Alan Borovoy
Canadian human rights activist and lawyer
Died on Tuesday May 12th 2015
Soledad Cazorla
Spanish jurist
Died on Monday May 4th 2015
Berry Avant Edenfield
American federal judge
Died on Saturday May 9th 2015
Jim Coutts
Canadian lawyer
Died on Tuesday December 31st 2013
Jan Steyn
South African judge
Died on Monday December 30th 2013
John Matheson
Canadian lawyer
Died on Friday December 27th 2013
Herbert F. Travers, Jr.
American attorney and judge
Died on Thursday December 26th 2013
Donald Roe Ross
American federal judge
Died on Wednesday December 18th 2013
Kelly Clark
American attorney
Died on Tuesday December 17th 2013
John Gabbert
American judge
Died on Monday December 9th 2013
Dame Florence Baron
British jurist
Died on Monday December 9th 2013
Richard S. Williamson
American lawyer and diplomat
Died on Sunday December 8th 2013
Orlando Álvarez
Chilean lawyer and writer
Died on Sunday December 8th 2013
James von der Heydt
American lawyer and judge
Died on Sunday December 1st 2013
C. R. De Silva
Sri Lankan lawyer
Died on Thursday November 7th 2013
Yosef Harish
Israeli jurist
Died on Wednesday November 6th 2013
Alfred Monnin
Canadian judge
Died on Friday November 29th 2013
Herbert F. DeSimone
American politician and lawyer
Died on Wednesday November 27th 2013
Michael Weiner
American labor leader and lawyer
Died on Thursday November 21st 2013
Edmund Reggie
American politician and Louisiana municipal judge
Died on Tuesday November 19th 2013
Sir Alfred Blake
British Royal Marines officer and solicitor
Died on Sunday November 17th 2013
Andres Narvasa
Filipino lawyer and jurist
Died on Thursday October 31st 2013
Srđa M. Popović
Serbian civil rights lawyer and activist
Died on Tuesday October 29th 2013
Cancio Garcia
Filipino jurist
Died on Tuesday October 15th 2013
Zheng Tianxiang
Chinese politician and judge
Died on Thursday October 10th 2013
Lars Erik Taxell
Finnish legal scholar
Died on Monday October 7th 2013
Bruce McPherson
South African-born Australian jurist
Died on Monday October 7th 2013
Ulric Cross
Trinidadian judge
Died on Friday October 4th 2013
John William Potter
American federal judge (1982–2004)
Died on Thursday October 3rd 2013
Arnold Burns
American lawyer
Died on Tuesday October 1st 2013
William Sullivan
American politician and lawyer
Died on Wednesday September 11th 2013
Demetrius Newton
American politician and civil rights attorney
Died on Wednesday September 11th 2013
Francisco Corzas Chávez
Filipino human rights lawyer
Died on Wednesday September 11th 2013
Glen Pommerening
American politician and lawyer
Died on Tuesday September 10th 2013
Tore Sinding-Larsen
Norwegian judge
Died on Sunday September 8th 2013
Gene Nottolini
American judge
Died on Thursday September 5th 2013
Sir Arthur George
Australian lawyer and soccer administrator
Died on Wednesday September 4th 2013
Ralph M. Holman
American judge
Died on Tuesday September 3rd 2013
Henry Putzel, Jr.
American lawyer and Reporter of Decisions of the United States Supreme Court
Died on Monday September 2nd 2013
George N. Zenovich
American politician and judge
Died on Wednesday September 25th 2013
Bernard Corboz
Swiss judge
Died on Tuesday September 24th 2013
Harl H. Haas, Jr.
American politician and jurist
Died on Saturday September 21st 2013
Peter K. Leisure
American federal judge
Died on Tuesday September 17th 2013
Eduardo García de Enterría
Spanish jurist
Died on Monday September 16th 2013
Joseph M. McLaughlin
American judge
Died on Thursday August 8th 2013
George Hauptfuhrer
American lawyer and basketball player
Died on Friday August 2nd 2013
Julius L. Chambers
American lawyer and civil rights activist
Died on Friday August 2nd 2013
Arthur J. England, Jr.
American judge
Died on Thursday August 1st 2013
Donald W. Steinmetz
88. American judge
Died on Saturday August 31st 2013
Robert J. Corts
American politician and judge
Died on Sunday August 25th 2013
Irwin Russell
American entertainment lawyer (Michael Eisner
Died on Friday August 23rd 2013
Ronald Motley
American lawyer
Died on Thursday August 22nd 2013
