Counsel for the Situation : Shaping the Law to Realize America's Promise

for the Supreme Court, and later served as senior counsel to the Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1975 he was appointed secretary of transportation by President Gerald FordÂ-the first American of color to serve in a Republican cabinetÂ-and in 1995 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton.At his core, Bill Coleman is a lawyer. He strives to be a "counsel for the situation"Â-an advocate able to take on major matters in a variety of legal disciplines while upholding the highest traditions of justice and the public interest. He is fiercely proud of the legal professions role in a democratic society and free economy, and he is grateful for the opportunities that profession has afforded him in the court room, the board room, and the corridors of power. It is through this prism that he relates his own storyÂ-his life and the law.The results speak for them [Publisher's text]

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