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The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D.

Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis had at least four “careers.” As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he pioneered how modern law is practiced.

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court.

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court.

Named to the Supreme Court, Brandeis, ranked as one of the nation's leading progressive reformers.

In this award-winning biography, Melvin Urofsky gives us a panoramic view of Brandeis's unprecedented impact on American society and law.

This admiring biography of Louis Brandeis portrays him as a reformer and innovator of legal technique.

In his latest book, Melvin Urofsky presents not only Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, but also Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion.

He, and others, developed the modern law firm, in which specialists manage different areas of the law. He was the author of the right to privacy; led the way in creating the role of the lawyer as counsel∨ and pioneered the idea of pro bono publico work by attorneys.

As late as 1916, when Brandeis was nominated to the Supreme Court, the idea of pro bono service still struck many old-time attorneys as somewhat radical.

Between 1895 and 1916, when Woodrow Wilson named Brandeis to the Supreme Court, he ranked as one of the n