Stella Liebeck's attorney argued that coffee should never be served hotter than, and that a number of other establishments served coffee at a substantially lower temperature than McDonald's.

A large portion of the film covered Liebeck's lawsuit.

Liebeck's attorneys argued that McDonald's coffee was " defective ", claiming it was too hot and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment.

During the case, Liebeck's attorneys discovered that McDonald's required franchisees to serve coffee at.

Liebeck's lawyers presented the jury with evidence that coffee like that McDonald ’ s served may produce third-degree burns ( where skin grafting is necessary ) in about 12 to 15 seconds.

) Liebeck's attorneys argued that these extra seconds could provide adequate time to remove the coffee from exposed skin, thereby preventing many burns.

The Boy Scouts of America were represented by attorney George Davidson, a partner in the New York-based law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed.

When McDonald's refused to raise its offer, Liebeck retained Texas attorney Reed Morgan.

Stanley Forman Reed ( December 31, 1884 – April 2, 1980 ) was a noted American attorney who served as United States Solicitor General from 1935 to 1938 and as an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957.

When the war ended in 1918, Reed returned to his private law practice and became a well-known corporate attorney.

The case was especially important to Reed because of his prior career as an attorney for agricultural cooperatives ( Rock Royal was a milk producers co-op ).

For three years, he served as an Air Force attorney, then returned to Paducah and joined the law firm of Reed, Scent, Reed, and Walton.

Knox was a leading Pittsburgh attorney in partnership with James Hay Reed, their firm being Knox and Reed ( now Reed Smith LLP ).

After the war, he returned to Ypsilanti as the city attorney, as well as attorney for the Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Company, a business he later owned in a partnership.

* Beatrice Anne Reed, who married ( 1 ) Roger Albert Morrison ; ( 2 ) David Niven, Jr., a son of the actor David Niven ; and ( 3 ) David Phelps, a California real estate attorney.

Horinko was an attorney at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, involved in the areas of pesticides and hazardous waste counseling, Clean Water Act and Superfund litigation, and environmental audits in connection with business transactions.

J. P. Morgan and the attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U. S. Steel in 1901 ( incorporated on February 25 ) by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry " Judge " Moore's National Steel Company for $ 492 million ($ billion today ).

According to Herbert Marshall Lloyd, an attorney and editor of Morgan's works, Lewis was descended from James Morgan, brother of Miles, who were Welsh pioneers of Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts, respectively.

But later, as an influential state senator, as North Carolina attorney general from 1969 to 1974, and as the successful candidate to succeed Democratic U. S. Senator Sam Ervin, Morgan was considered a moderate.

After winning the Democratic primary for U. S. Senate in 1974, Morgan resigned as attorney general.

The New York assistant district attorney noted that the timing, location, and method of delivery all pointed to Wall Street and J. P. Morgan as the targets of the bomb, suggesting in turn that it was planted by radical opponents of capitalism such as Bolsheviks, anarchists, communists, or militant socialists.

However, when Morgan learned that Mitchelson had dinner and a meeting at the White House with Nancy and Ronald Reagan, she lost trust in Mitchelson, firing him and hiring attorney Joel Steinberg in his place.

Stac, in an effort led by attorney Morgan Chu, sued Microsoft for infringement of two of its data compression patents, and won ; in 1994, a California jury ruled the infringement by Microsoft was not willful, but awarded Stac $ 120 million in compensatory damages, coming to about $ 5. 50 per copy of MS-DOS 6. 0 that had been sold.

When she realizes she needs help from someone familiar with the workings of a military court, she hires Charlie Grimes ( Morgan Freeman ), an embittered former military attorney who has a grudge against the military brass, to assist her.

Morgan also appeared as Brooklyn assistant district attorney Burton Turkus in the 1960 gangster film Murder, Inc., playing in a cast that included Stuart Whitman, May Britt, and Peter Falk.

* Charles Morgan, Jr. ( 1930 – 2009 ), U. S. civil rights attorney

His father was an attorney who made his fortune by brokering a deal to sell an oil company to J. P. Morgan.

His other younger brother is the attorney Morgan Chu.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

Wendell Bird served as a special assistant attorney general for Louisiana in the case and later became a staff attorney for the Institute for Creation Research and Association of Christian Schools International.

In early 1967, a group of six investors ( among them attorney Richard Tinkham, John DeVoe, Chuck DeVoe, sports agent Chuck Barnes and Indianapolis Star sports writer Bob Collins ) pooled their resources to purchase a franchise in the proposed American Basketball Association.

Village meetings are held in a local hotel, and the Village contracts with an engineer, attorney, Mettawa Open Lands Association, and various consultants for operational services.

Among his accomplishments, Archer went on to become an attorney, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, two-term mayor of Detroit, and President of the American Bar Association.

After successful completion of the program, a law clerk may take the Washington State Bar Exam and, upon passing, will be admitted as an attorney into the Washington State Bar Association.

* From the American Association for Paralegal Education ( AAfPE ): " Paralegals perform substantive and procedural legal work as authorized by law, which work, in the absence of the paralegal, would be performed by an attorney.

The case was reviewed by the Kentucky Bar Association Character and Fitness Committee and they found Robinson met the character and fitness requirements to sit for the Kentucky bar exam and licensed him as an attorney.

Speakers at the opening dedication in 1925 included Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell University, who worked to complete the manuscript of Lea's Materials for a Study of Witchcraft ; Professor Dana C. Munro of Princeton University, vice president of the American Historical Association, who had used Lea's collections as a young scholar ; and Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia historian and former attorney general of Pennsylvania.

The judges were Judith Krug, Director, the American Library Association for Intellectual Freedom ; Jack K. Landau, attorney an columnist, Newhouse Newspapers ; Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Chicago Tribune ; and Harriet Pilpel, attorney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

" It was a concept I developed through having operated pro sports leagues and teams ," says Arnold, an attorney who previously was a sports agent and was involved with the World Football League, American Basketball Association, World Hockey Association and World Team Tennis.

To become a registered patent attorney in Taiwan, one must pass the Patent Attorney's Examination administered by the Examination Yuan, complete the required pre-practice training course ( 60 hours ) with Taiwan Intellectual Property Office, and join the Taiwan Patent Attorney's Association.

Riter was the first Utah attorney on the Board of the American Bar Association.

From 1916 to 1920, Gillett worked in Washington, D. C., as an attorney and lobbyist for the San Francisco-based Associated Oil Company and the Oil Industry Association.

David T. Hardy ( born February 25, 1951 ), is a senior attorney with the National Rifle Association and has practiced law since 1975.

Before becoming district attorney in 1882, White was a charter member of the first Los Angeles County Bar Association.

A Baptist minister and practicing attorney, he served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) from 1977 to 1992, and throughout his career was a vocal campaigner for civil rights in the United States.

They were defended by attorney Clarence Darrow, who was retained by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

He was chairperson of Joint committee on Human Rights Commission and member of the following committees: Joint Committee on Public Protector, Steering Committee on Public Protector, Steering committee on implementation of the new constitution, Senate rules committee, Senate select committee on Justice and the Judicial Services Commission. On 16 July 1998, he was elected as the first National Director of Public Prosecutions ( a sort of super attorney general ) and by 1999 was an affiliate member of the International Association of Prosecutors.

Koh's wife, Mary-Christy Fisher, is an attorney employed by the New Haven Legal Assistance Association ; they have two children.