An attorney at law in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in court on the retainer of clients. As of January 1, 2023, there were 1,331,290 active lawyers in the United States. In terms of absolute numbers, the American legal profession was the largest in the world as of 2015, and it is thought to be the largest in the world in proportion to domestic population. A 2012 survey conducted by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell determined 58 million consumers in the U.S. sought an attorney in the last year and that 76 percent of consumers used the Internet to search for an attorney.
The University of Houston Law Center is the law school of the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1947, the Law Center is one of 12 colleges of the University of Houston, a state university. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The law school's facilities are located on the university's 667-acre campus in southeast Houston.
Frederick Martin "Fred" Baron was an American trial lawyer best known for representing plaintiffs claiming toxic and chemical exposure. He was also an active figure in politics as a fund-raiser for the Democratic Party.
Lauro "Nick" Pacheco Jr. is an American disbarred lawyer, politician, and a member of the Democratic Party. Pacheco served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council (1999–2003). Prior to serving on the Los Angeles City Council, Pacheco served as an Elected Charter Reform Commissioner (1997–1999) for the same district he served as Councilman. He also worked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office as a Deputy District Attorney (1995–1999).
Thomas Che Goldstein is an American lawyer. He is known for his advocacy before and blog about the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe, a Washington, D.C., firm specializing in Supreme Court litigation, and was, until the end of 2010, a partner at Akin Gump, where he was co-head of the litigation and Supreme Court practices. He retired from Goldstein & Russell in March 2023.
Martindale-Hubbell is an information services company to the legal profession that was founded in 1868. The company publishes the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, which provides background information on lawyers and law firms in the United States and other countries. It also published the Martindale Hubbell Law Digest, a summary of laws around the world. Martindale-Hubbell is owned by consumer website company Internet Brands.
Baker Botts L.L.P. is an American law firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, at One Shell Plaza. It has approximately 725 lawyers and primarily handles matters involving technology and energy companies. It is the second-oldest law firm west of the Mississippi.
Robert Manley Parker was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Fennemore Craig, P.C. is a Mountain West regional law firm that offers clients legal services in both litigation and commercial transactions.
Pablo Javier Almaguér is an American lawyer from Texas. He is a former chair of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors.
Harry Lee Tindall is a founding shareholder of Tindall & England, P.C. in Houston, Texas. The firm is ranked as a top tier firm by both Martindale Hubbell and U.S. News & World Report.
Murray S. Monroe Sr. was a Cincinnati-based lawyer for Taft, Stettinius & Hollister and founded the firm's Antitrust practice.
Ada Elene Brown is an American lawyer who is a district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is a former trial judge of the Dallas County courts and a former Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas. She was the first African-American woman federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate. She is also the first African American woman to sit as a federal judge in the 140- year-history of the Northern District of Texas.
Michael Pariente is an American criminal defense attorney and the founder of Pariente Law Firm. He has been lead counsel in several high-profile cases, including Andersen v. Eighth Judicial District Court, which entitled every defendant charged with misdemeanor domestic battery to a jury trial in the State of Nevada. The case has been called "the most significant Nevada Supreme Court case of the 21st century."
Walter Mosley is an American lawyer who specializes in entertainment, media and technology at Mosley and Associates. Mosley represented Blac Chyna in a law suit against Kim Kardashian in 2018. As the case progressed in court, Mosley reportedly received threats to life from unnamed persons on social media platform, Instagram for leading the case against Kardashian. In 2017, Mosley was the attorney who represented DeMario Jackson, a contestant in Bachelor In Paradise show on ABC’s dating series in a ligation against abrupt shutting down of the program. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
Jim S. Adler, also known by the nickname of The Texas Hammer, is an American trial attorney and businessman. He is the founder of Houston, Texas-based law firm Jim Adler & Associates. Adler has been practicing law in Texas in the area of personal injury for 54 years. Some of his TV advertisements have been a subject of controversy.
Edgar Myron Louton is an American missionary to South Africa who has worked there, at times with the Assemblies of God, since 1951.
Albert Gordon Louton was a prominent American missionary in the Northern Transvaal region of South Africa.
Rollin Gene Grams is an American Episcopal author and theologian. He served as the director of the Robert C. Cooley Center for the Study of Early Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has also lectured at the University of Oxford and Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
Eugene Edgar Grams was an American missionary, evangelist and educator in South Africa.
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