Used to be people identical to Clarence Darrow or Daniel Webster were seen as top-flight lawyers, though the lot reduction lawyers then…is there any one with the identical repute for ethics as well as hearing work, nationwide, who exists today? Should not be the judge, professor, or alternative non-practicing lawyer, unless they had repute of being the good counsel prior to their stream job.
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Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was of that sort of caliber. He was the lawyer who argued Brown v. Board of Ed and several other major cases before becoming a Judge, then the Solicitor General of the United States, and then a Supreme Court Justice.
Lawyers of that caliber don’t come around every generation. The field is pretty specialized today, like every other field. Within specialties, there are lawyers who are at the top, but few who become the sort of household name that Oliver Wendol Holmes was, for example.
Note that the most influential justice never to sit on the Supreme Court is still working today, Judge Richard Posner. He once wrote an opinion saying he had to rule according to clear precedent from the Supreme Court, but the Court should overrule him because their precedent is wrong. The Supreme Court overruled him, basically saying that he was completely correct and the previous Supreme Court decision was wrong. I often disagree with him, but he is very smart and the very influential. He’s probably the only conservative Bush could have appointed I would have been OK with. He picked Alito and Roberts instead, unfortunately.