Before legendary attorney Clarence Darrow took on his most famous cases—the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 and his defense of the two teenaged “thrill killers” Leopold and Loeb in 1924—he made a name for himself as a labor attorney. Darrow represented striking railroad workers, coal miners, woodworkers and other laborers at a time when tensions between unions and management ran high.
His defense tactics raised questions, however, and in 1912 Darrow was put on trial in California for jury tampering in connection with his representation of John and James McNamara. The brothers were union members accused of firebombing the Los Angeles Times building and killing 21 people during a union struggle. (The brothers pleaded guilty and went to prison but avoided the death penalty.)
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