Mike Lanier was a celebrated litigator before his death.

Evidence

The New York Times ran a lengthy obituary that heralded him as a “Fierce Litigator in Momentous Fights” who “won record malpractice awards, mounted racial job-discrimination battles, and sued gunmakers whose weapons were used in the Sandy Hook school massacre.” I knew all of that, and yet there was no way an article could capture what he meant to me. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 860