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Abe Hummel. The senior partner in the firm was William F. Howe (1828 – September 2, 1902), a corpulent UK-born and later naturalized American trial lawyer who had served 18 months in jail in Britain for false representation, [1] and who was strongly suspected of possessing a more extensive criminal background.
He became a naturalised American on 19 September 1863 in New York where he founded Howe and Hummel with Abraham Hummel (1849-January 21, 1926). Howe handled most of the firm's criminal work, participating in more than 600 murder trials in the course of his fifty-year career and winning a large but unstated proportion of them. He was noted for ...
At the time of her arrest, Mandelbaum had attorneys William F. Howe and Abraham Hummel on retainer for $5,000 a year. Howe and Hummel argued for her innocence and attempted to discredit Gustav Frank, implying he was a criminal. Bail was set at $10,000 ($2,000 for each of five charges). Despite round-the-clock surveillance by Pinkerton ...
A Altheimer & Gray; Arter & Hadden; B Baker & Daniels; Bingham McCutchen; Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison; Brown & Wood; C Community Rights Counsel; Coudert Brothers
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After several name changes, and the addition of Bronson Winthrop, it was known as Winthrop & Stimson after 1898, and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts after 1927. [3] The firm represented clients including W. E. B. Du Bois, [4] America West Airlines, [5] Zapata Petroleum, [6] Clark Estates Inc., [6] and Ethyl Corporation, [7] among others.
The firm traced its founding back to 1848, when Benjamin Franklin Butler opened a legal practice with his son, William Allen Butler, at 29 Wall Street in New York City. The firm was headquartered in downtown Manhattan from 1848 until 2001, eventually occupying floors 38 through 40 of the 2 World Trade Center building prior to the building's destruction in the September 11 attacks.