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LDF Mourns Loss of Longtime Board Member Jay Topkis
September 04, 2018
NEW YORK, Sept. 4 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news release:

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the passing of Jay Topkis, a former member of LDF's Board of Directors who advised LDF on more than 21 cases between 1967 and 1988. A generous LDF donor, Topkis was a longtime partner at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He was 94.

"For more than four decades, Jay Topkis . . .

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