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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
English statesman
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer
Gaius Verres
Roman magistrate
William Davison
English royal official
Luther Martin
Luther Martin
American lawyer
Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie Cochran
American lawyer
William Kunstler
William Kunstler
American lawyer
Henry Marten
English jurist
Melvin Belli
Melvin Belli
American lawyer
Dinarchus
Greek speech writer
Sir William Scroggs
English chief justice
John Bradshaw
John Bradshaw
English jurist
Cauchon, drawing of his tomb sculpture, 15th century, by Roger de Gaignieres; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Pierre Cauchon
French bishop
Quintus Hortensius Hortalus
Roman orator
William Moody
William Moody
United States jurist
“Trial of the century”
F. Lee Bailey
American lawyer
Henri-Eugène-Philippe-Louis d’Orléans, duke d’Aumale
French noble
Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz
American lawyer
Arendt, Hannah
Hannah Arendt
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