Reynolds, Quentin, (Courtroom: The Story of Samuel S. Leibowitz [hc, Farrar, Straus, 1950] and [pb, |Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999] 978-0374527426 [Biography of the celebrated Jewish criminal defense lawyer, most famous for defending the Scottsboro Boys. Leibowitz later became a judge.]
Section 4.7
Prominent U.S. Jewish Criminal Defense Lawyers
Nizer, Louis, (My Life in Court [hc, Doubleday, 1961] 978-9997500175 [pb, Kessinger Publishing, 2007] 978-1430462569 [Classic memoir/casebook by one of the most famous Jewish-American trial lawyers of the twentieth century.]
Hays, Arthur Garfield, (City Lawyer: The Autobiography of a Law Practice [hc, Simon & Schuster, 1942]) [Major Jewish civil-liberties lawyer; counsel in many politically and socially significant cases.]
Kunstler, William M., with Sheila Isenberg, (My Life as a Radical Lawyer [hc, Birch Lane Press, 1994] 978-1559722650 [pb, Citadel Press, 1996] 978-0806517551 [Important Jewish radical/criminal-defense lawyer: Chicago Seven, civil-rights cases, Attica defendants and numerous controversial clients.]
Dershowitz, Alan M., (The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort [hc, Random House, 1982] 978-0394507361 [pb, Vintage, 1983] 978-0394713809
Dershowitz, Alan M. (Chutzpah [hc, Little, Brown, 1991]) 978-0316181372 [pb, Touchstone, 1992] 978-0671760892 [Dershowitz explicitly relates his legal career to his Brooklyn Jewish upbringing and Jewish identity.]
Dershowitz, Alan M., (Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law [hc, Crown, 2013]) 978-0307719270 [pb, Crown, 2019] 978-0307719287 [Dershowitz reveals the evolution of his own thinking on such fundamental issues as censorship and the First Amendment, Civil Rights, Abortion, homicide and the increasing role that science plays in a legal defense. He recounts his legal biography, describing his struggles academically at Yeshiva High School growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, his successes at Yale, clerking for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, his appointment to full professor at the Harvard at age 28, the youngest in the school's history. Dershowitz went on to work on many of the most celebrated cases in the land, from appealing (successfully) Claus Von Bulow's conviction for the murder of his wife, to the O.J. Simpson trial, to defending Mike Tyson, Leona Helmsley, Patty Hearst, and countless others. – Amazon]
Abramson, Leslie, with Richard Flaste, (The Defense Is Ready: Life in the Trenches of Criminal Law [hc, Simon & Schuster, 1997]) 978-0684814032 [pb, Pocket, 1998] 978-0671023263 [Memoir of the prominent Jewish criminal defense attorney, best known for the Menendez case.]
Rabinowitz, Victor, (Unrepentant Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir [hc, University of Illinois Press, 1996] 978-0252022531 [Useful memoir connecting Jewish identity, radical politics, civil liberties and law]
Neier, Aryeh, (Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights [hc, PublicAffairs, 2003]) 978-1891620829 [pb, PublicAffairs, 2005] 978-1586482916 [Jewish refugee background; ACLU, Human Rights Watch and international human-rights law]
Abrams, Floyd, (Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment [hc, Viking, 2005]} 978-0670033751 [pb, Penguin Publishing Group, 2006] 978-0143036753 [Important Jewish-American First Amendment lawyer]