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Johnnie Cochran was born October 2, 1937 in Shreveport, Louisana to Johnnie L. Cochran and Hattie Cochran. His father, Johnnie Sr., was an insurance salesman at Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, while his mother, Hattie, sold Avon Products.

Cochran attended public schools and excelled in his studies.

He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955 and was at the top of his class before enrolling at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics in 1959 and earned a doctorate in law in 1962 from Loyola Law School.

Legal career and achievements

In 1963 Cochran passed the bar and received his first case in 1964 which was a celebrity and within two years he had gone into private practice and then opened his own business which was called Cochran, Atkins & Evans in Los Angeles.

By the late 1970s, Cochran had already built a reput