About Mark Lane

Mark Lane has been a member of the bar for more than half a century.  

He successfully represented the American Indian Movement in the historic Wounded Knee trial.   

He defeated E. Howard Hunt and the CIA in a trial in the United States District Court in Florida and William F. Buckley in a trial in the United States District Court in Washington DC.    He represented numerous clients in the civil rights movement in the South and in the North.   

He was counsel for a plaintiff in a leading case in the United States District Court, Washington, DC establishing the rights of women to bring actions for sexual harassment.  

He was a member of the New York State Legislature and was the only public official arrested as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi.  

Mark Lane is the author of ten books. 

His first work, Rush to Judgment was the New York Times  Number One bestselling book both in its original edition and the following year in paperback.  Plausible Denial was also a New York Times bestselling book. 

All of his books are about contemporary legal matters and are listed with annotations in this website under Written Works as are screenplays, plays and documentary films by Mr. Lane.   Mark Lane’s most recent work is Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK published by Skyhorse Publishing.  

In June 2012, Mark Lane’s autobiography, Citizen Lane will be published by Chicago Review Press.

Mark Lane working on Rush to Judgment, 1966

Mark Lane working on Last Wordand CItizen Lane, 2011