Private Legal Practice
- George B. Case (1897), founder of New York law firm White & Case.
- Paul Drennan Cravath (1886), name partner of New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore (awarded first Municipal Law prize, and prize tutorship).
- William Nelson Cromwell (1878), founder of New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.
- George Davidson (1967), head of the Litigation Department of the New York law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed.
- Leslie Fagen (1974), litigator; senior partner at the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
- Marvin E. Frankel (1948), name partner in New York Law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, litigator, federal judge, professor at Columbia Law, legal scholar.
- Walter J. Fried 1928, name partner of New York law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
- Arthur Garfield Hays (1905), prominent corporate litigator.
- Ed Hayes (1972), defense attorney and Court TV anchor; basis for the character Tommy Killian in the Tom Wolfe novel The Bonfire of the Vanities.
- Charles Evans Hughes, one of founders of New York law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; from 1925 to 1930, he argued over 50 times before U.S. Supreme Court.
- Caroline Kennedy (1988), daughter of President John F. Kennedy; former candidate for U.S. Senator (New York).
- Jeffrey L. Kessler, litigator; partner at the international law firm Winston & Strawn.
- Harvey R. Miller (1959), the New York Times called him "the most prominent bankruptcy lawyer in the nation." (March 9, 2007)
- Gary P. Naftalis (1967), co-chairman of New York law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.
- Daniel A. Neff (1977), Chairman of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.
- Louis Nizer, noted trial attorney, senior partner of New York law firm Phillips Nizer LlP.
- Robert G. Morvillo (1962), defense lawyer for Martha Stewart.
- Frank Polk (1897), name partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell.
- Joseph Meyer Proskauer (1899), founder of New York law firm Proskauer Rose.
- Charles Rembar (1938), best known as a First Amendment rights lawyer
- Charles F.C. Ruff (1963), Washington attorney who represented Anita Hill and President Bill Clinton.
- Whitney North Seymour (1923), president of the ABA; chairman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
- Sidney B. Silverman, trial lawyer specializing in stockholder actions.
- John W. Simpson (lawyer) (1873), one of the founders of New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
- David Sive (1948), pioneer in environmental law; founding partner, Sive, Paget & Riesel, PC.
- John H. Slate, Jr. (1938), name partner of New York law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
- John William Sterling (1893)³, founder of the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling; major donor to his undergraduate alma mater, Yale University; namesake of Yale's library, law building, and its most prestigious endowed chair.
- Francis Lynde Stetson (1869), early leader of New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.
- Max Steuer (1893), one of the most effective American trial attorneys in the first half of the 20th century
- Thomas Thacher (1873), one of founders of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett.
- Henry Waters Taft, one of the most notable lawyers in New York, bother of President William Howard Taft.
- Samuel Untermeyer (1878), prominent corporate lawyer and civic leader.
- Frank Weil, Sylvan Gotshal, and Horace Manges, founders of New York law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
- Louis S. Weiss, Simon H. Rifkind, and John F. Wharton, name partners of New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
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