Facts: - death place: washington , d.c. - caption: brandeis in c. 1916 - birth name: louis david brandeis - successor: william o. douglas - death date: 5 october 1941 - predecessor: joseph rucker lamar - office: associate justice of the united states supreme court - spouse: alice goldmark 1891 - nominator: woodrow wilson - birth date: 13 november 1856 - alma mater: harvard law school - image: brandeisl.jpg - birth place: louisville , kentucky - religion: judaism - termstart: june 1 , 1916 - termend: february 13 , 1939 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of louis brandeis .
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louis dembitz brandeis -lrb- ; november 13 , 1856 -- october 5 , 1941 -rrb- was an american lawyer and associate justice on the supreme court of the united states from 1916 to 1939 .he was born in louisville , kentucky , to jewish immigrant parents from bohemia , who raised him in a secular home .he attended harvard law school , graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the law school 's history .brandeis settled in boston , where he founded a law firm -lrb- that is still in practice today as nutter mcclennen & fish -rrb- and became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes .starting in 1890 , he helped develop the '' right to privacy '' concept by writing a '' harvard law review '' article of that title , and was thereby credited by legal scholar roscoe pound as having accomplished '' nothing less than adding a chapter to our law '' .he later published a book titled '' other people 's money and how the bankers use it '' , suggesting ways of curbing the power of large banks and money trusts , which partly explains why he later fought against powerful corporations , monopolies , public corruption , and mass consumerism , all of which he felt were detrimental to american values and culture .he also became active in the zionist movement , seeing it as a solution to antisemitism in europe and russia , while at the same time being a way to '' revive the jewish spirit . ''when his family 's finances became secure , he began devoting most of his time to public causes and was later dubbed the '' people 's lawyer . ''he insisted on serving on cases without pay so that he would be free to address the wider issues involved .the '' economist '' magazine calls him '' a robin hood of the law . ''among his notable early cases were actions fighting railroad monopolies ; defending workplace and labor laws ; helping create the federal reserve system ; and presenting ideas for the new federal trade commission -lrb- ftc -rrb- .he achieved recognition by submitting a case...