Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
What attorney was crowned “the King of Torts” by Life magazine in 1954, this flamboyant San Francisco trial lawyer transformed personal-injury law by wheeling scale models, films, and even a client’s severed prosthetic leg in front of juries, earning a second nickname, “the Father of Demonstrative Evidence”? His celebrity client list ran from Errol Flynn and Mae West to Muhammad Ali and the Rolling Stones, and he defended Jack Ruby for free.
Hint: He also, improbably, had a memorable acting turn as an alien on Star Trek.
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