Reminiscences of Whitney North Seymour : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Family background; education, University of Wisconsin and Columbia Law School, 1920-1923; Angelo Herndon and other cases handled as attorney, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, 1924- ; work with Landmarks Conservancy in New York City, other environmental and cultural organizations; American Bar Association activities, 1937- ; discussion of professional standards, case presentation and tactics, selection process of judges, legal clinics and continuing legal education

Subjects

• Bar associations.
• Conservation of natural resources.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Law--United States.
• Law partnership.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Practice of law.
• Seymour, Whitney North, 1901-1984.
• United States--Intellectual life.