Lawrence Walsh

Lawrence Edward Walsh ( born January 8, 1912 in Port Maitland, Nova Scotia, Canada, † March 19, 2014 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) was an American lawyer and United States Deputy Attorney General, who in mainly as an independent prosecutor of Iran - Contra affair became known.

Life

After school he studied at Columbia University and earned there in 1932 a Bachelor of Arts ( AB), before he completed a subsequent study of law at the local law school with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). After his subsequent attorney's approval, he worked as a lawyer in New York City. After he had acted 1954-1957 as a judge at the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, In 1957 he was deputy as Deputy Attorney General U.S. Attorney General and held this post until 1960.

After his retirement from government service, he became in 1961 a partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell, a law firm with 600 lawyers and now based in New York City. During his 20 -year-old local partnership until 1981, he was from 1966 to 1967 and President of the Bar Association of the State of New York (New York State Bar Association). After 1981, he was a partner of the law firm of Crowe & Dunlevy in Oklahoma City and was committed to further invest in the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society, the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In addition, he was at times also a trustee of his alma mater, Columbia University.

Large notoriety achieved by his Walsh exercised between December 1986 and 1993, working as an independent investigator and prosecutor of the Iran - Contra affair. About these experiences and backgrounds he wrote in 1997 the book Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up. A Lawyer 's Life in 2003, and an article on the Iran - Contra affair in the newsletter Counterpunch: Besides his memoirs under the title The Gift of Insecurity published.