LEONARD M. LEIMAN ’51

LEONARD M. LEIMAN, 82, an attorney and partner in Fulbright & Jaworski, died Oct. 30, 2013. A member of Sigma Nu, he received his degree with honors and with distinction in government. After receiving his law degree from Harvard University, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, he clerked for Appeals Court Judge Learned Hand and for Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. He joined the former law firm Reavis & McGrath in 1956, becoming a partner and playing an important role in the firm’s merger with Fulbright & Jaworski, and he remained of counsel to the multinational law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. He practiced securities law, advised many nonprofits, and counseled numerous companies on how to navigate complex regulatory environments. He was a member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the New York Stock Exchange, and was past chair of the Committee on Securities Regulation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He also taught corporate and securities law as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and New York University law schools. His wife, Joan Maisel Leiman, survives, as do his son, Alan J. Leiman ’85, his daughter, three grandchildren, his sister, and an extended family.