Ben Margolis (April 23, 1910 – January 27, 1999) was an American attorney, best known for defending the Hollywood Ten and the Sleepy Lagoon murder suspects and for helping to draft the United Nations Charter.
[1][2][3][4] Margolis was born in New York, the son of Socialists who fled persecution of Jews in their native Russia.
He attended Hastings Law School in California, opening a practice in San Francisco in 1933.
"[7] Margolis commissioned a noteworthy home by architect Gregory Ain which was built by his partner James Garrott in 1951.
[8][9] The two architects had been partners for 11 years at the time,[10][11][12] and were alternately "Garrott & Ain" or "Ain & Garrott," depending on who was responsible for design, while on other projects they simply assisted each other's solo work without credit.