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Johnnie Cochran's Legal Career
Johnnie Cochran was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1937. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of California at
Los Angeles. Mr. Cochran graduated from the Loyola University School of Law in
1962.
In 1963, he began his legal career in Los Angeles, California as a Deputy City
Attorney for the city's criminal division. He remained in that position for three years before co-founding Cochran, Atkins and Evans. The firm practiced civil and criminal cases.
In 1977, after several victories in the court room, he was honored by the L.A.
Criminal Courts Bar Association as the "Criminal Trial Lawyer of the Year". Mr.
Cochran is the only attorney ever to receive the Trail Lawyer of the Year award
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