George Leighton started a case at age 86. Eleven years later, at age 97, he still comes in to his law office every day, and he's ready to handle what he hopes will be the final argument to dismiss the case Jan. 21.
"I hope," he adds with a laugh. "It's been a great 97 years. And I owe it all to the people of Chicago. They gave me a chance."
The retired federal judge "rose from abject poverty to the greatest heights of the legal profession. He is a legal trailblazer of unbelievable accomplishment," said Jerold Solovy, chairman of the Jenner & Block law firm. Solovy endowed a scholarship in Leighton's name at Harvard Law School. On Leighton's office wall hangs a letter from …
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