One of the greatest French defence attorneys from the 40s to the 70s.
Amongst his clients were Gaston Dominici in 1954, the Guérini family
(mafia from Marseille) in the 60s. He was one of the lead voices for
the abolition of death penalty too : five of his clients were
guillotined, the last one being the last man ever executed in France,
murderer and torturer Hamida Djandoubi, on September 10th, 1977. Pollak
died a few months after this execution.