{"product_id":"chesterfield-smith-americas-lawyer-9780813066660","title":"Chesterfield Smith, America's Lawyer","description":"\u003cb\u003e Florida Historical Society Rembert Patrick Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eChesterfield Smith spearheaded the American Bar Association's condemnation of Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal. Smith's damning statement \"No man is above the law\" turned him into a national figure. But his outsized accomplishments, and equally outsized personality, had already made the Florida attorney a legend in his home state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Adkins's biography follows the epic life of a person driven by the motto \"do good.\" A child of the rural South turned war hero, Smith put himself through law school and rose fast to lead the Florida Bar and mastermind the drafting of a new state constitution. At the same time, he grew his small firm into Holland \u0026amp; Knight, a legal leviathan he imbued with his own sense of public duty. His idealism further manifested in his hiring of women and people of color while his expansive professional network led to a close friendship with future Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Adkins also examines Smith's mentoring of several outstanding legal figures and the community service organizations still influenced by his humane vision of the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFully realized and long overdue, \u003ci\u003eChesterfield Smith, America's Lawyer\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the complexities of a defining Florida figure who became a legal giant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdkins, Mary E.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMary E. Adkins\u003c\/b\u003e is master legal skills professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377229762834,"sku":"9780813066660","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fff8b9ca-8185-43e9-b634-969abc261832.jpg?v=1728618874","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chesterfield-smith-americas-lawyer-9780813066660","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}