ATLANTA — Griffin Bell, the former federal appeals court judge and U.S. attorney general who served as the dean of both King & Spalding and the Georgia legal community, died Monday at the age of 90.
Bell’s 60-year legal career included three stints at the firm — a nine-lawyer outfit when he joined in 1953 — broken up by challenging service on the federal court overseeing desegregation across the South and as the chief of the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake of Watergate. Ultimately he returned to rainmaking at King & Spalding, where he built a practice that defended corporations accused of criminal wrongdoing.
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