A History of the Rammelkamp Bradney Law Firm
Al Hall had a winning personality of enormous magnitude. It's no surprise that he was extremely effective before a jury. If there were 30 clients who walked in the office any given day, 25 of them were there to see Al. People liked him.
Al was State's Attorney of Morgan County, a position he held with distinction for eight years during the turbulent period of the '60s. Civil rights initiatives during this time made some people in the Jacksonville community uncomfortable, many of them acquaintances of Al's through his membership in various social clubs.
Without publicity, without fanfare, without agitation, civil rights statutes in Morgan County suddenly were adhered to, and the person responsible for it was Al Hall. Some of those acquaintances at the social clubs did not like it, but Al took the oath very seriously that he had committed to first as a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and later as Morgan County state's attorney. Al got the job done without acknowledgement from anyone about what he almost individually did for Jacksonville. The same was true of actions toward gambling in the county that had been tolerated for years. Not surprisingly Al's friends, the power brokers of Morgan County, continued to like him as much as before.
