Even at a young age, Lewis Steel was aware of the racial and socioeconomic gulfs that segregated people, and this reflected to him that “something was seriously wrong in society.”
July 19, 2024 at 02:21 PM
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After a long career with high-profile cases that include the effort to free imprisoned boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Outten & Golden’s Lewis Steel, a prominent civil rights attorney, is hanging up the gloves.
Steel, who retires as senior counsel at the firm, began his legal career in the 1960s. And while he successfully fought to spring Carter from prison, he doesn’t shy away from discussing cases that didn’t go his way.
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Steel, a celebrated civil rights attorney and senior counsel at Outten & Golden, retired at 87. Courtesy photo
