E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
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Congratulations to E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
The American Lawyer has selected E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. as one of its 2007 Lifetime Achievers. This award honors distinctive careers and public service. It “recognizes senior lawyers who have made outsize contributions to public life while building outstanding practices.... …have exemplified the legal profession’s twin values of client service and public duty” and whose “work stands as both an inspiration and a challenge to those who follow them.” His story is included in the September 2007 issue of The American Lawyer.
Prettyman, who serves on the board of directors at the Jackson Center, is currently of counsel to Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C.
E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. |
Washington Lawyer E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. Spoke At Jackson Center
Law Clerk's Roundtable
Well-known Washington lawyer and former Robert H. Jackson Law Clerk E. Barrett
Prettyman, Jr. participated in two Robert H. Jackson Center events held on October
8, 2003 held in conjunction with Chautauqua Institution. The Law Clerks who
worked for Jamestown area native Justice Jackson in the l950s participated in
a roundtable discussion in the morning and Mr. Prettyman was the keynote speaker
at a dinner that evening. E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., served as Justice Jackson’s
final law clerk during the October Terms of l953 and l954 and, upon the Justice’s
death, clerked for Justices Felix Frankfurter and John M. Harlan, successively.
He had many fascinating stories to tell.
A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law where
he was Decisions Editor of the Virginia Law Review, Moot Court winner and best
Law Review Note winner, he joined the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson
following his Supreme Court Law Clerkship. He then became Special Assistant
to the Attorney General and to the White House during the Kennedy Administration
and following government service, returned to his former law firm as a partner.
More recently, he served as Inspector General of the District of Columbia. He
was the first President of the District of Columbia Bar and President of the
American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the D.C.
Bar Foundation and is Vice President of the Supreme Court Historical Society.
He won an Edgar Allen Poe Award for his book, Death and the Supreme Court. He
has argued l9 cases in the Supreme Court, serves as Chair of the Supreme Court
Judicial Fellows Commission, and today is “Of Counsel” to Hogan
& Hartson.