Jack Litman, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJack Litman
American lawyer
Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1943
Date of Death: 23-Jan-2010
Profession: criminal defense lawyer
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Jack Litman
- Jack Theodore Litman (July 26, 1943 – January 23, 2010) was a criminal defense lawyer most famous for his "blame the victim" defense of Robert Chambers, Jr.
- (the "Preppie Killer").
- The son of a Jewish Belgian haberdasher and his wife, who together fled Europe the day before the Nazi invasion of Belgium, Litman was born in New York City.
- He attended Stuyvesant High School and Cornell University before enrolling in Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1967.
- After a Fulbright scholarship in France, he joined the Manhattan District Attorney's office under the leadership of Frank Hogan.
- He left the DA's office as deputy chief of the homicide bureau, and became a defense attorney. While intellectual and cool in the courtroom, he adopted the strategy of soliciting juries' sympathies for the perpetrators of even the most horrible murders.
- The tactics used in the Preppy Killer trial earned him scathing criticisms from many quarters, including victims' rights advocates, feminists, and the family of the victim.
- But he also won praise for his zealous advocacy, which he considered to be among society's most noble pursuits.
- He held many positions of authority in the criminal-defense bar, including as a founder and president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys (NYSACDL), which honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), which honored him with a resolution praising his "extraordinary legal ability, dedication, compassion and commitment to representation of the accused" shortly after his passing. Litman had two sons, who survived him.
- He died at age 66 in January, 2010, of lymphoma, a disease he had suffered for more than ten years.
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