The New York Times obits are good reads \u2014 dense biographical essays about interesting people’s lives, really, more than death notices.<\/p>\n
Yesterday’s obit by Bruce Weber for jazz pianist Hal Schaefer<\/a> contains a lot of very famous names, a great picture of Marilyn Monroe and a nugget about a lawsuit that arose from a bunch of guys breaking into the wrong apartment. Take a look. You’ll be startled when you read who that bunch of guys were.<\/p>\n That lawsuit echoes one I worked on years ago, when our client’s front door in a good neighborhood was broken down by police who had confidential information that she was running guns. She wasn’t; she ran a college office and was a playwright. On her behalf we filed a Notice of Claim against the City of New York. The City settled, fast, for \u2014 coincidentally \u2014 the same amount noted in the Hal Schaefer obit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New York Times obits are good reads \u2014 dense biographical essays about interesting people’s lives, really, more than death notices. Yesterday’s obit by Bruce Weber for jazz pianist Hal Schaefer contains a lot of very famous names, a great … Continue reading