Clarence Seward Darrow is one of the most famous attorneys in U.S. history. A complex man, Darrow defended many labor union and political radicals between 1894 and 1914, yet also made enormous fees representing corporations. His defense of Leopold and...

As an American labor lawyer and as a criminal lawyer, Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938) helped sharpen debate about the path of American industrialism and about the treatment of individuals in conflict with the law. Clarence Darrow was born on April...

Clarence Darrow is best known as the attorney who defended John Thomas Scopes, the schoolteacher brought to trial in 1925 for teaching the theory of evolution in his classroom in Hillsboro, Tennessee. Darrow volunteered his services in this case...

Sometimes reviled for his defense of unpopular people and causes, Clarence Darrow was the most widely known attorney in the United States at the time of his death in 1938. He practiced law in the Midwest, eventually becoming chief attorney for the...

Clarence Darrow Born April 18, 1857 (Kinsman, Ohio) Died March 13, 1938 (Chicago, Illinois) Lawyer Clarence Darrow was one of the most famous lawyers in U.S. history. Always a strong defender of the underdog and a winner of seemingly lost causes,...

5clarence Darrow Closing Argument in the Leopold and Loeb Trial Published in 1924 In the late spring of 1924 the nation was shocked by the news of a kidnapping and murder in Chicago, Illinois. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two nineteen-year-olds...

Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 Kinsman Township, Trumbull County, Ohio - March 13, 1938 Chicago) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in...

Around the age of 12, I picked up Irving Stone's "Clarence Darrow for the Defense" and found my boyhood hero. Darrow, one of America's great criminal lawyers, defended John T. Scopes's right to teach evolution in Tennessee, and in Chicago he took on the...

University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar fails to appreciate the importance of jury nullification in fighting injustices when he attacks juries and the methods for selecting them. Kamisar extensively quotes William Howard Taft, a judge who was known for tolerating injustice. A...

In a steamy Tennessee courtroom in July 1925, Clarence Darrow seemed to face a setback from which he couldn't save his case. He was there to defend John Scopes, a teacher who made himself a test case for a state law making it a crime...

Former media baron Conrad Black says he is confident a jury will clear him of fraud at his upcoming trial in the United States.Black and three other former executives of his Hollinger International media empire are due to stand trial later this month in Chicago,...

In the following essay, Hynd details Darrow's defense of "hopeless" cases.

In the following essay, Rahskopf discusses Darrow's speeches and public addresses.

In the following essay, Ginger provides an overview of Darrow's life and works.