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The Life and Career of Johnnie L. Cochran : Attorney

published March 30, 2009

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<<A good example of an attorney is Johnnie L Cochran. He ranks as America’s most famous attorney. He has clients all over America. The list of his clients includes icons and famous people like Michael Jackson, Sean Combs, O.J. Simpson, and Reginald Denny among other key Americans who are very popular. Attorney Cochran is currently working alongside Kenneth Star, the lawyer who served as a special prosecutor in a case involving former president Bill Clinton.

Why is Johnnie L Cochran a popular attorney?


Attorney Cochran fame grew when he took O.J. Simpson’s case in 1995. The case was dubbed the ‘trial of the century’. The White community hated him for representing Simpson who was black. The attorney has kept a reputation for his approach to the legal process and human rights. He has theorized key concepts in law wherein, law enforcement officers admit to have planted evidence yet the public anger and outcry from different social quarters blame him for representing a criminal.

Cochran has won cases for people from various places. Recently, he helped a Black Chicago family win $18 million in settlement over a woman, La Tanya Haggerty, who was killed by a police officer. Though his fame and popularity is viewed as his strength in winning settlement, the attorney is quite knowledgeable about his role as an attorney.

What is His profile?

This avid attorney has credentials that place him well above average. He is qualified and is on record for winning cases. Johnnie Cochran was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, October 2nd 1937. He was admitted to the bar in 1963 in California. Johnnie’s background goes back to University of California at LA where he studied Business Administration graduating in 1959. He went to Loyola Law School in 1962. He later joined University of Southern California.

Attorney Johnnie Cochran became a recipient of the Criminal Trial Lawyer of the year in LA criminal courts Bar Association in 1977.

He did his undergraduate at UCLA and earned his law degree at Loyola Marymount University School of Law in Los Angeles. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He is the pioneer of Black Legal Leadership Award, among others. He was named the Outstanding Law enforcement Office of 1979, by the California Trial Lawyers Association. He has many awards and achievements gained during his career.

He has his own law firm Cochran, Cherry, Givens, and Smith. The Firm is proud of offices in 10 cities in America. He is not only a role model for young attorneys, but to those practicing law and young people looking forward to becoming attorneys in the near future.

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Harrison is the founder of BCG Attorney Search and several companies in the legal employment space that collectively gets thousands of attorneys jobs each year. Harrison’s writings about attorney careers and placement attract millions of reads each year. Harrison is widely considered the most successful recruiter in the United States and personally places multiple attorneys most weeks. His articles on legal search and placement are read by attorneys, law students and others millions of times per year.

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published March 30, 2009

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
( 159 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5)
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