Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. October 1910: The bombed-out Los Angeles Times building. (Los Angeles Times) He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great ...

In the Leopold and Loeb trial of 1924, attorney Clarence Darrow achieved what many thought impossible. He saved the lives of ...

In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

Clarence Darrow was a trial attorney made famous for his defense of a Tennessee educator accused of breaking a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. Bettmann / Corbis Clarence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every ...

A midwestern childhood -- A bum profession -- Becoming the "attorney for the damned" -- Fighting for the people in and out of court -- Labor's lyrical lawyer -- In defense of dynamiters -- Darrow ...

Clarence Darrow (1853-1938) was one of the greatest litigators of his age, a modern Daniel Webster, for it was Webster who made speeches of reasoning, pathos and sarcasm that enforced the principles ...

"We are all criminals in some way or another," said famed attorney Clarence Darrow in an appearance a century ago in Canton. "Although I have never killed anybody that I know of, I have often read ...

He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three-day ...

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...

Henry Fonda's acclaimed performance of legendary attorney Clarence Darrow in a compelling one-man show captures the wit, passion, and humanity of one of America's most influential champions of free ...