Joel Seidenstein (1944-2008) · CC BY-SA 3.0

A civil rights attorney who defended the Chicago Seven, the defendants charged over the 1968 Democratic Convention protests, in a trial The New York Times called him "perhaps the country's most controversial" lawyer for taking on. He co-founded the Center for Constitutional Rights, won a school-desegregation case in Washington, D.C., and went on to represent Black Panther and American Indian Movement defendants, saying he only defended people whose goals he shared.