2 Quotes & Sayings By Edward Bennett Williams
Edward Bennett Williams was a trial lawyer who was the leading force in the New York legal community from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was a member of more than forty charitable foundations, including the American Red Cross and the United Negro College Fund. He served as a director of more than a dozen corporations, including Coca-Cola and Chase Manhattan Bank. He was a former president of the New York Stock Exchange and of the Lawyers' Club of New York
In 1969 he founded Edward Bennett Williams & Co., a general law partnership, where he continued to practice until his death.