Leonard I. Weinglass has been defending political cases arising out of the movements for peace and civil rights in the United States for over 30 years and served as trial counsel in such well known cases as: the Chicago Seven; the Pentagon Papers trial; the trial of Jane Fonda in her suit against Richard Nixon; African-American radical Angela Davis; Bill and Emily Harris, charged with kidnapping Patty Hearst; Amy Carter, the daughter of the former president Jimmy Carter, charged with the seizure of a building at the University of Massachusetts; Mumia Abu Jamal, death row inmate; Kathy Boudin, former Weatherman; and the five Cubans charged with espionage in Miami. He also defended a series of death penalty cases in Georgia, Alabama, and Washington State. Over the years he has served as an official observer in trials in Asia, Europe and South America. In 1974 he became the first recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award. Currently he practices law solo out of his office in New York City.