 After graduating from Harvard, Frazier began his law career with Drinker Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia.In 1991, Esther F. Lardent, head of the Death Penalty Representation Project, asked Frazier to defend death-row inmate James Willie "Bo" Cochran.Cochran had been arrested and accused of murdering an assistant manager at a Birmingham grocery store in 1976.