Hall, Burton, 1929-

Burton Hall (1929-1991) was born in South Orange, New Jersey, in 1929. He graduated from Williams College in 1951 and Yale Law School in 1954. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1957 and worked as a lawyer for a private firm and the Federal Aviation Agency before setting up his own practice in 1960 as a labor lawyer. Unintentionally at first, he found himself handling a union insurgency case which then led to others, so that his practice was almost entirely comprised of representing rank-and-file members suing to protect their democratic rights within their unions. In 1980 the law firm of Hall, Clifton & Schwartz was established, and after the addition in 1982 of Wendy Sloan as an associate, the firm became Hall & Sloan in 1984.

From the description of Papers, 1960-1988. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477252976