“One of the legendary lawyers that really don’t exist anymore.” That’s how Hogan Lovells partner Robert Bennett described Robert Strauss, who died March 19 at the age of 95.

The co-founder of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Strauss was chairman of the Democratic National Committee and advised presidents of both parties, serving as Jimmy Carter’s trade representative and George H.W. Bush’s ambassador to the Soviet Union and then Russia.