Henry Akin, who helped make Akin, Gump a national powerhouse, died in Dallas little more than a week after turning 100 years old. The firm he helped to build has ballooned to 900 lawyers, with offices ranging from Los Angeles to the District of Columbia to London to Moscow.
January 31, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When Robert Strauss and Richard Gump started practicing law together in 1945 in Dallas, they had two things going for them — time and Henry Akin.
Akin, who died of pneumonia in Dallas late last week, was the young duo’s secret weapon. Strauss, now 81, says he and Gump had time to spare because Gump & Strauss had so few clients, but Akin took the fledgling lawyers under his wing although he was a partner in another firm down the hall.
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