Dream Team (law)

[1] Robert Shapiro joined Simpson's defense team one week after the murder, when Howard Weitzman withdrew from the case, stating his workload was too heavy to continue as chair.

Cochran was diagnosed with a brain tumor in December 2003 and subsequently died in his home in Los Angeles, on March 29, 2005.

Alan Dershowitz was the Felix Frankfurter professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and as of 2013[update] remained one of the most successful lawyers and legal scholars in the country.

Scheck is also known for his work as co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project, a non-profit organization that uses DNA evidence to clear the names of wrongfully convicted inmates.

[14] Peter Neufeld joined the Simpson defense team to assist with undermining the prosecution's DNA and forensic evidence.

Uelmen says he devised the memorable line used by Johnnie Cochran in the closing argument, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

[20] Before the verdict was read, President Bill Clinton was briefed on potential security measures, in case rioting occurred following the announcement.

[20] The Supreme Court of the United States received a note documenting the verdict, which the justices passed to each other while listening to the oral arguments of the case at hand.

[20] In his book Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder, Vincent Bugliosi dismisses the idea that Simpson's defense team was a "Dream Team", stating that Shapiro had never tried a murder case before, Cochran was primarily a civil lawyer who may not have won a single murder case before a jury, Bailey had lost his last big case with Patty Hearst earlier, and Dershowitz was a prominent appellate lawyer, not a trial lawyer.