James Hurlock, a former chairman and partner at White & Case who oversaw a massive expansion of the firm during the last two decades of the 20th century, died on April 27. He was 82.

Hurlock, who lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, was born in Chicago in 1933 and raised in Cleveland. He completed his undergraduate work at Princeton University in 1955 and received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University during his time there.