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Celebrated Trials and Trial Lawyers

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Alger Hiss (center) and his wife Priscilla walk down the steps of the United States Courthouse in Foley Square with defense attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker, NYLS Class of 1906, during Hiss’s 1950 trial.
Arthur Abbey, Class of 1959, was the lead attorney in what was considered the largest jury verdict in any securities class action lawsuit.
Cipollone v. Liggett Group Inc. (1992), a U.S. Supreme Court case ruling that federally mandated warnings do not prevent smokers from suing companies according to state personal injury laws. The petitioning attorney Marc Edell graduated NYLS in 1975.
David N. Kelley, Class of 1986, served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2003 to 2005 and is currently a partner at the firm Cahill, Gordon & Reindel LLP.
David T. Wilentz, Class of 1917, was the former New Jersey State Attorney General and prosecuted the famed Lindergh Baby-Hauptmann Trial in 1935
Ferdinand Pecora, who attended NYLS from 1903 to 1905, was a New York Supreme Court Justice, a Deputy District Attorney in New York, and Chief Counsel to the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency.
Griswold v. Connecticut (1964) established that the Constitution gives individuals the fundamental right to privacy without explicitly stating it in a specific provision.
Hon. Samuel Seabury, Class of 1893, was a New York State Court of Appeals Judge, former President of the New York State Bar Association, and the Democratic Nominee for New York Governor in 1916.