What type of law did Barack Obama practice?

Answer 1

By most accounts, she practiced corporate and business law, working as an attorney for a wide range of clients, including non-profits. Some sources say she also was involved with laws that affected intellectual property rights. She was one of the first African-American lawyers at her firm.

Answer 2

He practiced civil rights law for about 11 years from 1993 to 2004.

Mr. Obama has utilized his law degree throughout his career but has not practiced law since 2004; his license became inactive in 2007.

While attending Harvard Law school he returned to Chicago during the summers, where he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. Sidney Austin is a "full service" law firm dealing mostly in transaction and litigation matters. Hopkins & Sutter was known for its expertise in tax, insurance, public policy and transportation finance work. Strictly speaking Obama was assisting the lawyers rather than "practicing law" but by many measures what he was doing is "practicing law" albeit under the direction of licensed lawyers.

After graduating from law school he landed a job as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book. He then taught at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years-as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004-teaching constitutional law. (Which makes his assertion that it would have been unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare more than a little strange. If he lectured on constitutional law, he should have known better.) Although law related, lecturing really doesn't qualify as "Practicing Law".

He actually practiced law when he joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 13-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004.

Answer 3

Barack Obama was a civil rights lawyer in Chicago before. He worked as a community organizer as well. His wife is a lawyer too.