John Payton, a civil rights attorney and leader of the NAACP who helped break the color barrier as one of the first black partners at a major law firm in Washington, D.C., died late Thursday following a brief illness. He was 65.
In reporting on Payton’s death, sibling publication The National Law Journal chronicles his life and achievements. Payton spent nearly three decades of his career at the firm now known as Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, at one time serving as head of the firm’s litigation practice, and joined the NAACP as president and director-counsel of its Legal Defense and Education Fund in 2008.
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