Dewey & Le Boeuf - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

'This list primarily represents alumni of predecessor firms.'

• Thomas E. Dewey, noted prosecutor, Governor of New York (1943–1954) and twice Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency (1944 and 1948)
• Elihu Root, noted American lawyer and statesman, U.S. Secretary of State, United States Secretary of War, U.S. Senator from New York, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Emory Buckner, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and one of the architects of the modern Wall Street legal culture
• John Marshall Harlan II, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Henry Friendly, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, general counsel of the United States Army and Chairman of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
• Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Richard Owen, U.S. District Court Judge, Southern District of New York
• Charles Sifton, U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District of New York
• George E. Cleary, Leo Gottlieb and Melvin C. Steen, founding partners of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Marshall Skadden, Leslie Arps and John Slate, founding partners of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• Francis T.P. Plimpton, founding partner of Debevoise & Plimpton
• Robert P. Patterson and Vanderbilt Webb, founding partners of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
• Lloyd K. Garrison, name partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
• Frank Iacobucci, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee