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Civil Litigation,
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Mar. 20, 2018
The civility and decency of a legal titan: Maxwell M. Blecher
At a time when our society’s civility and decency are being threatened every day, I feel compelled to write about the passing of a true legend in the legal profession who embodied civility and decency in everything that he did.




David W. Kesselman
Co-Managing Partner
Kesselman Brantly & Stockinger LLP
Phone: (310) 307-4555
Email: dkesselman@kbslaw.com
David is an adjunct professor of antitrust law at Loyola Law Schoo.

At a time when our society's civility and decency are being threatened every day, I feel compelled to write about the passing of a true legend in the legal profession who embodied civility and decency in everything that he did. Last October, we unexpectedly lost a giant of the antitrust bar: Maxwell M. Blecher. A truly gifted lawyer for more than 60 years, Max was a throw-back to another era. In his view, the practice of law was a profession in which your word was you...
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