Lawrence Randolph Bailey Jr., the first African-American attorney to become an equity partner at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, died May 2 in Westchester at the age of 68.

Bailey, the son of two attorneys, Cora T. Walker and Lawrence R. Bailey Sr., was born in 1949 in Harlem. His mother was one of the first female African-American attorneys to practice law in the state of New York.