Huckster or champion of civil rights, a soldier in the battle for equal justice or a snake oil salesman pure and simple, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. has been called many things over his long law career.

Attorneys Johnnie Cochran Jr. and Stuart Hanlon would spend decades working to free former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, who ...

Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. once wrote of the O.J. Simpson murder case, “At the end of that trial, not one of the participants walked out of that courthouse the same person he had been only months ...

“Johnnie Cochran, we see him in the same light as we do Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King because he struck a blow,” Courtney B. Vance, who played Cochran in the series, told NPR.

American media love and revere two kinds of outspoken black men: 1) dead ones; and 2) ones ravaged by Parkinson's disease. So this week, Johnnie Cochran joined Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X and ...

LOS ANGELES Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote "If it doesn t fit, you ...

LOS ANGELES Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote "If it doesn't fit, you ...