Louis S. Weiss
Louis Stix Weiss was a name partner of the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton amp Garrison, a firm that traces its roots to one founded by Louiss father Samuel W. Weiss in 1875. He was best known as one of banker Marshall Field IIIs 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 wars end, he returned to Columbia Law School, where he became EditorinChief of the Columbia Law Review and graduated in 1920.
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