Frederick LeRoy Leydorf

Fred L. Leydorf, who served as Richard Nixon's personal lawyer for seven years, died on January 14th at age 94. He served as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation and as Chairman of the Conference of Delegates of the State Bar of California. A graduate of the UCLA School of Law and the University of Michigan, he practiced law in downtown Los Angeles for 37 years, most of those years as a partner in Willis, Butler, Scheifly, Leydorf and Grant and Hufstedler and Kaus, where he was managing partner for two years. He specialized in the fields of Taxation, Estate Planning, and Probate and Trust Law. Mr. Leydorf was also President of the Chancery Club of Los Angeles and the UCLA Law Alumni Association and was listed in "Who's Who in the World." He was married to Mary Malcolm Leydorf, MD, daughter of Philippine Supreme Court Justice George A. Malcolm, for almost 60 years. Mr. Leydorf is survived by his five children Robert (Burt Gabler), William, Katherine Dustin, Thomas (Micah), and Deborah, and four grandchildren, Luke and Annie Dustin, and Elijah and George Leydorf. Services will be private.