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This book is primarily a history of the Los Angeles Bar Association from its organization in the 1870s. As the same time it is the exciting story of a turbulent area through the rowdy days from American occupation in 1846 until the present time. Much of the most interesting part of this story id tied in with the activities of lawyers who took over as the Spanish and Mexican alcaldes bowed out. Lynch law in the early decades, battles over land titles, the great real estate boom o the Eighties... followed by the fight for the harbor at San Pedro, the campaign to throw the Southern Pacific out of politics, and the torrid reform movement to wipe out open vice - in all of these events the Los Angeles bar played leading roles.The twentieth century also offers many dramatic stories - the dynamiting of the Times and the subsequent Clarence Darrow bribery trial, the business scandals of the 1920s and 1930s, the many lurid murder cases of this period, and the struggles over the tidelands. These stories are all in Lawyers of Los Angeles. The book also records the sober achievements of the organized bar and of Los Angeles lawyers in general; the amazing story of the courts, the dramatic fight to protect the profession and the raise its standards, and the development of the Los Angeles County Law Library and of the law schools of the area. Lists of judges who have served in Los Angeles County make the Appendix invaluable for reference.