A History of the Rammelkamp Bradney Law Firm
Edward Cleary
Edward Cleary graduated from Yale Law School at the top of his class. Ed Cleary and Orville Foreman before World War II had become acknowledged experts in Illinois municipal law. One of their cases involved the then important question whether government funds, specifically PWA, an agency arising out of Roosevelt's New Deal, could be used to finance a municipal power plant, specifically, Jacksonville's.
Cleary and Foreman won the case on the trial level, and the power company took the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, where Cleary and Foreman likewise won and established a very important point of law.
Going on to the University of Illinois after the War, Congress named Ed the reporter for the proposed Civil Rules of Federal Procedure committee. Every Federal Court in the United States uses these rules daily. Ed Cleary is the author of many of them. Ed also authored Cleary's Handbook on Illinois Evidence, one of the basic tools of every trial lawyer in Illinois. After a distinguished career at the University of Illinois, he accepted a professorship at the Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona where he taught another generation of lawyers.
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