In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Melvin J. Sykes

May 26, 2017

Melvin J. Sykes of Brown, Goldstein & Levy passed away. He was 93.

Mr. Sykes was a solo practitioner for most of his 67 years as a lawyer. He maintained offices in the Munsey Building in Baltimore and later the Maryland Bar Center and Sun Trust Building. He has argued more than 200 cases in Maryland’s appellate courts.

From 1970 to 1978 Mr. Sykes served as a member of the Governor’s Commission to Revise the Annotated Code of Maryland. He was of counsel at Brown, Goldstein & Levy when he retired in 2015.

Read the Baltimore Sun obituary.

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In Memoriam: William H. Webster

Former FBI and CIA Director William H. Webster passed away on August 8. He was 101.

A retired partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Washington, DC, and chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 to 2020, Judge Webster was the only person to serve as director of both the CIA and the FBI. He was an active member of The American Law Institute for more than five decades and served on its Council for 31 years.

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In Memoriam: Victor Schwartz

ALI life member Victor E. Schwartz passed away this week. A long-time and incredibly engaged member of the Institute. Victor was currently serving as an Adviser on Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies, as well as on the Members Consultative Group for our projects on Conflict of Laws, Corporate Governance, Property, and Torts: Defamation and Privacy. Schwartz served in these roles on numerous completed projects as an elected and life member.