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Harvard Law School's founding is traced to the establishment of a "law department" at Harvard in 1817. Dating the founding to the year of the creation of the law department makes Harvard Law the oldest continuously-operating law school in the United States. -
Congress grants the President the power to designate an officer within the Treasury Department to oversee the activities of the United States Attorneys. -
Congress creates the position of Solicitor of the Treasury and empowers it to have control over all United States Attorneys as well as United States Marshals and Clerks of Court. -
President Franklin Pierce served as United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire (1845-1847). -
Congress shifts the control of U.S. Attorneys from the Solicitor of the Treasury to the Attorney General. -
Pro Bono. Pro bono programs match low-income clients with volunteer lawyers, who agree to take their cases for free. -
On June 10, 1933, an Executive Order of the President states, “The functions of prosecuting in the courts of the United States...and of supervising the work of the United States Attorneys...now exercised by any agency or officer, are transferred to the Department of Justice.” -
The first United States Attorneys' conference was held in April 1939 in Washington, D.C. Pictured here are Attorney General Frank Murphy and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover arriving for the event. -
On April 6, 1953, an order of the Attorney General establishes the Executive Office for United States Attorneys to “provide general executive assistance and supervision to the offices of the United States Attorneys.” -
The Attorney General’s Advisory Committee was created to provide advice and assistance to the United States Attorney General.