Louis S. Weiss
| Louis S. Weiss | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Louis Stix Weiss February 7, 1894 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | November 27, 1950 (aged 56) New York City |
| Cause of death | heart attack |
| Education |
Horace Mann School Yale University Columbia Law School |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Parent(s) | Samuel W. and Carrie Stix Weiss |
Louis Stix Weiss was a name partner of the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a firm that traces its roots to one founded by Louis's father Samuel W. Weiss in 1875. He was best known as one of banker Marshall Field III's lawyers and for his work towards civil rights.
Louis Weiss was born on February 7, 1894 in New York City, the second son of Samuel and Carrie Stix Weiss. He attended the Horace Mann School and was graduated from Yale College in 1915. He began studies at the Columbia Law School, which were interrupted by the First World War. Rejected on medical grounds for military service, he spent the war years working for War Industries Board headed by Bernard Baruch. At war's end, he returned to Columbia Law School, where he became Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review and graduated in 1920.
After a brief association with the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, he formed his own partnership with his law school classmate and friend, John F. Wharton. In 1927, this two-person firm merged into the successor of the firm his father had founded, which was renamed Cohen, Cole, Weiss & Wharton. That firm and its successors became famous for breaking down the barriers of Jews practicing with Gentiles, as well as its commitment to civil and human rights.
In the late 1930s, Weiss met Marshall Field III through their common interest in psychoanalysis, and Weiss became Field's lawyer, as well as counsel to Field Enterprises and assorted other Field interests, including the Chicago Sun and the ill-fated PM newspaper edited by Ralph Ingersoll. In 1946, Weiss recruited former Treasury Department General Counsel Randolph E. Paul and former War Labor Board chairman Lloyd K. Garrison to his firm, which was renamed Paul, Weiss, Wharton & Garrison.
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