Geoffrey Fieger is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on December 23, 1950 in Detroit, United States. Geoffrey Nels Fieger (born December 23rd 1950) is an American lawyer based within Southfield, Michigan. Fieger is the partner in charge with the law firm Fieger, Fieger, Kenney & Harrington P.C., and is also a legal commentary in the news channels NBC as well as MSNBC. The practice of his firm is focused on civil rights cases, as well as the medical negligence cases.
in 1997 Fieger gave four million dollars to Detroit College of Law, which is now it is the Michigan State University College of Law in order to establish the initial trial institute designed for law students it was called”the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute.
Fieger served as the defense attorney for Jack Kevorkian and as the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor of Michigan in 1998.
In August 2007, Fieger was indicted on federal campaign finance charges; the U.S. government alleged that Fieger had illegally funneled $127,000 to John Edwards’ 2004 presidential campaign. Fieger was defended by famed defense attorney Gerry Spence, who announced this would be his last case. A jury acquitted Fieger of all 10 charges, and Fieger’s co-defendant and law partner Ven Johnson on five charges, on June 2, 2008. Johnson stated that the charges were politically motivated.
Fieger was involved in numerous prominent or controversial cases. In 1994 Fieger was the lawyer for the doctor. Jack Kevorkian in the first of the suicide trials involving doctors. Kevorkian was found not guilty in the trial, as well as every subsequent trial where Fieger represented the defendant. (Kevorkian was found guilty for representing himself in his most recent assisted suicide trial in 1999.) The events were turned into a film, You Don’t Know Jack, that aired on HBO where Fieger was played in the role of actor Danny Huston
