Famous Dead Lawyers: Recent Lawyer Deaths and Obituaries
Over 3,000 obituaries of famous dead lawyers. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
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
Hugo Black, Jr.
American attorney
Died on Monday July 22nd 2013
Efstathios Alexandris
Greek lawyer and politician
Died on Saturday July 20th 2013
John H. Moore II
American judge
Died on Thursday July 18th 2013
Tom Greenwell
American judge
Died on Monday July 15th 2013
Louis G. Hill
American politician and judge
Died on Saturday July 13th 2013
Leonard Garment
American lawyer and presidential adviser
Died on Saturday July 13th 2013
Robert Fukuda
American politician and lawyer
Died on Friday July 12th 2013
Caroline Duby Glassman
American judge
Died on Wednesday July 10th 2013
Wendell Alverson Miles
American judge
Died on Wednesday July 31st 2013
Luther F. Cole
American politician and judge
Died on Friday July 26th 2013
Pius Langa
South African judge
Died on Wednesday July 24th 2013
Rosalie E. Wahl
American jurist
Died on Monday July 22nd 2013
Ramon T. Jimenez
Filipino lawyer
Died on Monday July 22nd 2013
Allen Derr
American lawyer
Died on Monday June 10th 2013
John Crawley
American judge
Died on Tuesday June 4th 2013
Frank J. Magill
American federal judge
Died on Sunday June 2nd 2013
Edward Cornelius Reed Jr.
American federal judge
Died on Saturday June 1st 2013
Edward Huggins Johnstone
Brazilian-born American judge
Died on Wednesday June 26th 2013
Green Wix Unthank
American judge
Died on Tuesday June 25th 2013
John L. Nickels
American judge
Died on Monday June 24th 2013
Paul Mees
Australian academic and lawyer
Died on Wednesday June 19th 2013
Raghunath Bhattacharyya
Indian judge
Died on Tuesday June 18th 2013
Daya Perera
Sri Lankan diplomat and lawyer
Died on Sunday June 16th 2013
Thomas Penfield Jackson
American judge
Died on Saturday June 15th 2013
Hugo Gutierrez, Jr.
Filipino jurist
Died on Wednesday June 12th 2013
Robert Chambers
New Zealand judge
Died on Tuesday May 21st 2013
Evelyne Bradley
American Navajo judge
Died on Tuesday May 21st 2013
Sir Denys Roberts
British colonial official and judge
Died on Monday May 20th 2013
G. Sarsfield Ford
American judge
Died on Sunday May 19th 2013
James Stuart-Smith
British judge and army officer
Died on Wednesday May 15th 2013
Daniel W. LeBlanc
American judge
Died on Sunday May 12th 2013
Michelangelo Spensieri
Canadian politician and lawyer
Died on Monday May 6th 2013
John Swaim
American attorney
Died on Saturday May 4th 2013
David Noriega Rodríguez
Puerto Rican politician and lawyer
Died on Saturday May 4th 2013
Moses Harrison
American judge
Died on Thursday April 25th 2013
Gary L. Lancaster
American judge
Died on Wednesday April 24th 2013
Richard Everett Dorr
American judge
Died on Wednesday April 24th 2013
Joseph R. Nolan
American judge
Died on Tuesday April 23rd 2013
Jagdish Sharan Verma
Indian judge
Died on Monday April 22nd 2013
George Bunn
American diplomat and jurist
Died on Sunday April 21st 2013
Gerard Amerongen
Canadian politician and lawyer
Died on Sunday April 21st 2013
Leo Branton Jr.
American lawyer
Died on Friday April 19th 2013
Edward de Grazia
American lawyer and writer (Girls Lean Back Everywhere)
Died on Thursday April 11th 2013
Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr.
American judge
Died on Wednesday April 10th 2013
J. F. A. Soza
Sri Lankan judge
Died on Monday April 8th 2013
Albert J. Engel, Jr.
American judge
Died on Friday April 5th 2013
William H. Ginsburg
American lawyer (Lewinsky scandal)
Died on Monday April 1st 2013
Joseph Mwanyungwa
Malawian judge
Died on Saturday April 27th 2013
Isagani Cruz
Filipino judge
Died on Thursday March 21st 2013
Olivier Metzner
French criminal lawyer
Died on Sunday March 17th 2013
George Burditt
American politician and lawyer
Died on Tuesday March 12th 2013
Doug Christie
Canadian lawyer and free speech activist
Died on Monday March 11th 2013
Frederick B. Karl
American judge and politician
Died on Thursday March 7th 2013
Charles Galbreath
American politician and judge
Died on Tuesday March 5th 2013
William F. Hyland
American politician and lawyer
Died on Saturday March 2nd 2013
Gaynelle Griffin Jones
American lawyer and judge
Died on Friday March 1st 2013
Robert Danhof
American judge
Died on Friday March 1st 2013
Walker David Miller
American judge
Died on Sunday March 24th 2013
James Nabrit
American civil rights lawyer
Died on Friday March 22nd 2013
Angelo Ingrassia
American judge
Died on Thursday March 21st 2013
Luis Paulino Mora Mora
Costa Rican jurist
Died on Sunday February 17th 2013
Kenneth Dement
American attorney
Died on Friday February 15th 2013
Ronald Dworkin
American philosopher and legal scholar
Died on Thursday February 14th 2013
Pieter Kooijmans
Dutch jurist
Died on Wednesday February 13th 2013
Menachem Elon
Israeli jurist
Died on Wednesday February 6th 2013
Vernon Robert Pearson
American jurist
Died on Monday February 4th 2013
Adolfo Zaldívar
Chilean politician and lawyer
Died on Wednesday February 27th 2013
Harold G. Clarke
American judge
Died on Tuesday February 26th 2013
William J. Duffy
American jurist and politician
Died on Monday February 25th 2013
Frank Joseph Polozola
American federal judge
Died on Sunday February 24th 2013
Mary Ann McMorrow
American judge
Died on Saturday February 23rd 2013
Louis F. Oberdorfer
American judge
Died on Thursday February 21st 2013
Robert Callahan
American jurist
Died on Tuesday January 1st 2013
Harry L. Carrico
American lawyer and state judge
Died on Sunday January 27th 2013
Viggo Hagstrøm
Norwegian legal scholar
Died on Saturday January 19th 2013
Magomed Magomedov
Russian judge
Died on Tuesday January 15th 2013
Yuri Schmidt
Russian lawyer and human rights activist
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
W. Reece Smith, Jr.
American lawyer and academic
Died on Friday January 11th 2013
Murray Merle Schwartz
American federal judge (U.S. District Court for Delaware)
Died on Friday January 11th 2013
Mohammad Aeltemesh
Indian lawyer
Died on Friday January 4th 2013
Andrew P. O’Rourke
American politician and judge (New York Supreme Court)
Died on Thursday January 3rd 2013
Beatrice Bolam
English politician and magistrate
Died on Wednesday January 2nd 2013
S. Arthur Spiegel
American federal judge
Died on Wednesday December 31st 2014
Norbert Leser
Austrian jurist
Died on Wednesday December 31st 2014
Paul Sprenger
American attorney
Died on Monday December 29th 2014
Sir Ivor Richardson
New Zealand jurist
Died on Monday December 29th 2014
Ruggero J. Aldisert
American judge
Died on Sunday December 28th 2014
Paul V. Gadola
American judge
Died on Friday December 26th 2014
Edward Greenspan
Canadian lawyer
Died on Wednesday December 24th 2014
Raymond L. Acosta
American district court judge
Died on Tuesday December 23rd 2014