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Corrections: Only the most generous writer could depict her father's firm -- Frank & Weiss -- as one of the City's first "corporate law firms." The firm lasted less than five years, and her father became a very successful sole practitioner from 1880 until his death in 1910. Carol's eldest brother William S. Weiss graduated from Columbia Law that same year, and kept his father's practice going until multiple sclerosis forced him to recede from the practice of law. Carol's other brother, Louis S. Weiss, is the Weiss in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which the story misnames. Immediately upon graduation from law school, one of Carol Weiss King's first and most durable relationships was with Walter Pollak, a onetime partner of Benjamin Cardozo whom she met through her brother-in-law Carl Stern. The three of them worked on the Scottsboro Boys cases, which Pollak successfully argued in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a number of other cases. Walter Pollak's son, Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Pollak, who married (and after 50+ years is still wed to) Carol's neice, wrote the Forward to Ann Ginger's definitive biography of Carol Weiss King.

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