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- <text id=94TT1601>
- <title>
- Nov. 21, 1994: Died:Louis Nizer
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Nov. 21, 1994 G.O.P. Stampede
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 43
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- <p> DIED. LOUIS NIZER, 92, trial lawyer and author; in New York
- City. During six decades of wooing the press while mostly giving
- clients their money's worth, Nizer was one of the century's
- premiere celebrity lawyers, an attorney whose presence in a
- trial automatically invested it with significance. Aided by
- the grandiloquence that won him public-speaking awards in his
- days at Columbia Law School, the Brooklyn-bred son of a dry
- cleaner triumphed in such high-profile cases as the libel suit
- of broadcast personality John Henry Faulk, for whom Nizer won
- a $3.5 million judgment in 1962 against a red-baiting organization
- that had slandered Faulk's career into oblivion (the victory
- is credited with helping end the black list). Nizer's client
- list was top heavy with the famous: Charles Chaplin, Salvador
- Dali, Mae West and Julius Erving. A painter, composer and author
- of 10 books, Nizer published his autobiography in 1962; My Life
- in Court stayed on the New York Times's Best Seller list for
- 72 weeks.
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