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Understanding Legal Roles and Terminology

This quiz tests your knowledge on important legal terms and roles within the legal system.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Los Angeles attorney Bobby Diamond became nationally known a half century ago through his role as the orphaned Joey Newton in the NBC television series Fury.
  • the United States Department of Justice attorney James A. Baker, who has defended Bush administration intelligence policy in Congressional testimony and court cases, is not related to former Secretary of State James A. Baker III.
  • Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights attorney, worked against racial discrimination and helped end the doctrine of separate but equal during a period of massive resistance to integration in Virginia's public schools.
  • Murphy Bell, a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge, represented the since imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972.
  • Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos, Texas, financier Billie Sol Estes.
  • Joseph Finegan, an attorney, politician, and railroad builder, was the commander of Confederate forces at the Battle of Olustee, fought in 1864 during the American Civil War.
  • Florida attorney Ellis Rubin claimed his client was driven to nymphomania by the side-effects of Prozac.