Michael E. Tigar (born 1941) is an American criminal defense attorney known for representing controversial clients. He is also a member of the Duke Law School faculty.
Tigar earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and his J.D. from the Berkeley Law in 1966. As an undergraduate, he was elected to the Associated Students board as a SLATE candidate. In law school he was a member of Order of the Coif and served...
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Michael E. Tigar (born 1941) is an American criminal defense attorney known for representing controversial clients. He is also a member of the Duke Law School faculty.
Tigar earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and his J.D. from the Berkeley Law in 1966. As an undergraduate, he was elected to the Associated Students board as a SLATE candidate. In law school he was a member of Order of the Coif and served as editor-in-chief of the California Law Review.
In 1966, he was hired as a law clerk by Justice William J. Brennan of the United States Supreme Court. Brennan, however, fired him the week he began his job, following complaints made by conservative columnists because of Tigar's activist background. Tigar was a partner in the firm of Williams & Connolly of Washington, DC (1976–'78), where he worked underneath legendary trial attorney Edward Bennett Williams, and has been a professor at American University's Washington College of Law since 1998...
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