{"id":164174,"date":"2026-10-01T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/01\/the-most-feared-trial-lawyer-in-america-who-owned-two-pro-sports-teams\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:45:23","slug":"the-most-feared-trial-lawyer-in-america-who-owned-two-pro-sports-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/01\/the-most-feared-trial-lawyer-in-america-who-owned-two-pro-sports-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Feared Trial Lawyer In America Who Owned Two Pro Sports Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What prominent trial lawyer \u2014 the man \u201ca rich man who is scared\u201d called first with a client list that included Senator Joe McCarthy, Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, a Mafia don, a Texas governor, Frank Sinatra, and Hugh Hefner \u2014 built his own marquee Washington Biglaw firm, still a litigation heavyweight today? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: And in his spare time, he owned both an NFL franchise (the team from Washington) and a Major League Baseball team (Baltimore Orioles, who won the 1983 World Series on his watch). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/the-most-feared-trial-lawyer-in-america-who-owned-two-pro-sports-teams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Most Feared Trial Lawyer In America Who Owned Two Pro Sports Teams<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What prominent trial lawyer \u2014 the man \u201ca rich man who is scared\u201d called first with a client list that included Senator Joe McCarthy, Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, a Mafia don, a Texas governor, Frank Sinatra, and Hugh Hefner \u2014 built his own marquee Washington Biglaw firm, still a litigation heavyweight today? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: And in his spare time, he owned both an NFL franchise (the team from Washington) and a Major League Baseball team (Baltimore Orioles, who won the 1983 World Series on his watch). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/the-most-feared-trial-lawyer-in-america-who-owned-two-pro-sports-teams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Most Feared Trial Lawyer In America Who Owned Two Pro Sports Teams<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! What prominent trial lawyer \u2014 the man \u201ca rich man who is scared\u201d called first with a client list that included Senator Joe McCarthy, Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, a Mafia don, a Texas governor, Frank Sinatra, and Hugh Hefner \u2014 built his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}