Entries tagged "obituary"
Remembering Wall Street historian and thinker Peter Bernstein.
Fred Baron, the Texas trial lawyer best known for spearheading the toxic tort litigation movement on behalf of thousands of asbestos-exposed plaintiffs, died from cancer on Oct. 30. The legendary attorney, a founder of Dallas-based law firm Baron & Bud PC, died of a multiple myeloma just weeks after gaining authorization to use Tysabri -- a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease, and a possible drug treatment for his ailment. ...
The New York Times ran an obituary of Dennis Weatherstone, who died of cancer at the age of 77. The Times obit was pretty bare bones about Weatherstone, a sign of how quickly memories fade on Wall Street, but his story is remarkable. Weatherstone was a small, trim, self-effacing man but, in his time at the top in the '90s, a huge figure. The cliché about Weatherstone was that he was a man no one disliked. That was a slight exaggeration, but just slight. He was soft-spoken, precise and he moved like a cat (he loved tennis). He was unfailingly...
