Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortas left the Government in 1946 to become a law partner of ex-F.D.R. Trustbuster Thurman Arnold. The two were joined by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman
Paul A. Porter, and the firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter emerged as one of Washington's top legal offices.
Between corporate assignments, Fortas labored with intense dedication on nonremunerative civil-liberties cases. In the early '50s, he successfully defended Johns Hopkins Scholar Owen Lattimore on charges of perjury. (Lattimore, testifying before a Senate committee, denied supporting Communist causes.) In 1954, Fortas persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
Fortas' devotion to the law. His wife Carolyn, who was his student when he was teaching at Yale, is now a member of his firm and is one of Washington's shrewdest tax lawyers. Husband and wife together draw an estimated $200,000 to $225,000 a year...
The Friendship. The sinews of friendship between Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson are about as deep and strong as possible. In 1948, when Johnson's election to the U.S. Senate was challenged, it was Fortas who acted as his counsel and held the seat despite charges that the 87...