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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
Legal Studies and Career
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later cases and experiences at the bar (1762-1774)35
drafts and notes of arguments32
early cases and experiences at the bar (through 1761)28
accounts and fees for services as lawyer26
notes of legal authorities25
teaching and training law clerks in his office15
office records (docket lists, dockets, memoranda, bills, accounts, &c.)9
court materials and summaries in his “Admiralty Book”7
JA's intellectual approach to the law6
LJA01
history and description of JA's legal papers and materials5
keeps notes in commonplace book5
LJA01
LJA03
records “Abstract” of writs of assistance argument5
drafts information praying forfeiture of logs and masts seized by Wentworth4
rides circuit in “Eastern Counties” of York and Cumberland (now Maine)4
LJA01
LJA02
habit of recording courtroom minutes2
LJA01
mechanics of JA's practice2
LJA01
relationship of JA's legal training and experience to his public life2
LJA01
“1757 ... I longed more ardently to be a Soldier than I ever did to be a Lawyer”1
AFC01
Admiralty case concerning whaling1
LJA02
appointed guardian of a minor1
LJA01
attack on the Admiralty Court in Hancock case1
LJA02
Auchmuty's report of a courtroom appearance by JA1
LJA02
cases and experiences at the bar (1764)1
AFC01
cases and experiences at the bar (1767)1
AFC01
cases and experiences at the bar (1769)1
AFC01
cases and experiences at the bar (1772)1
AFC01
cases and experiences at the bar (1774)1
AFC01
cases and experiences at the bar (1775)1
AFC01
chooses a legal career1
EJA01
chronology of JA's legal career1
LJA03
comments on extent of jury's power1
LJA01
compiles list of pleadings1
EJA01
considered Corbet's case more important than Massacre trials1
LJA02
considered resuming practice after being retired from Presidency1
LJA01
counsel for assessors in case of a Presbyterian claiming tax exemption1
LJA02
court circuit to Worcester (1763)1
AFC01
criminal cases in Special Courts of Admiralty1
LJA02
development and extent of JA's practice1
LJA01
drafts abstracts of titles1
LJA01
drafts poor-law petition in No. 261
LJA01
files plea in confession and avoidance in No. 331
LJA02
For legal authorities mentioned or cited, see the following1
Gordon's comments on JA's role in Massacre trials1
LJA03
helps draft petition from Braintree troops on bounty1
EJA01
Hutchinson's comments on JA's role in Massacre trials1
LJA03
impeachment proceedings against Peter Oliver1
DJA02
inadequate treatment of JA's legal career in biographies1
LJA01
JA's legal papers as materials for social history1
LJA01
keeps epitome of early reading of Coke on Littleton1
LJA01
Kennebec Company one of JA's most important clients1
LJA02
255-274
passim
King v. Stewart (1774) and its sequels1
AFC01
La Fortune case (1777)1
AFC02
last case as active trial lawyer in prize controversy for Doane1
LJA02
law library1
LJA01
letters to three friends on studying law1
EJA01
misgivings about his writ in Field v. Lambert1
EJA01
office in Queen Street, Boston1
AFC01
109
ff.
often paired with co-counsel1
LJA01
Oliver Whipple's report of a courtroom appearance by JA1
LJA02
on importance of oratory to lawyer1
EJA01
on lawyers as writers1
DJA02
on lawyers in the Province who have made greater fortunes than he1
AFC01
on means to draw a “Swarm of Clients”1
EJA01
planned collection of anecdotes about lawyers1
PJA01
plays leading part in early bar association1
LJA01
Pleadings Book1
EJA01
politically important defense of Hancock and sloop Liberty on smuggling charges1
LJA02
prize case in N.H. Court Maritime1
LJA02
ranks colleagues of Suffolk bar1
DJA01
relations with other members of the legal profession1
LJA01
rivalry with Robert Treat Paine at bar1
AFC01
slavery cases1
LJA02
sought as counsel by Col. David Henley1
AFC02
term of Superior Court of Judicature in Falmouth (Portland), Maine1
AFC01
Tyler to collect legal debts owed to JA1
EJA01
Tyng v. Gardiner cases1
AFC02
White Pine Acts cases in Court of Vice Admiralty1
LJA02
William Cushing's report of a courtroom appearance by JA1
LJA01
See also: names of individual cases
See also: under the names of JA's law clerks
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