Background
Wachtel, Harry H. was born on March 26, 1917 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Minnie (Herzhaft) Wachtel.
Wachtel, Harry H. was born on March 26, 1917 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Minnie (Herzhaft) Wachtel.
City College of the City University of New York (Bachelor of Specialized Studies, 1938). Columbia University (Juris Doctor, 1940).
Worked at Gold & Wachtel, Limited Liability Partnership (New York, New York) specializing in International, Corporate, Tax, Securities and Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1940, New New York 1960, United States. Supreme Court.
Phi Beta Kappa.
Notes and Decisions Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1939-1940. Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, 1972-1975. Founder, Director, Vice President and Counsel, Martin Luther King Center for Social Change, 1968-1986.
Military: With United States.
Army Signal Corps, 1942-1945. Gold & Wachtel, Limited Liability Partnership is a law firm comprised of approximately thirty attorneys specializing in domestic and international business transactions and litigations.
Our principal office is located in New York City. We also conduct our practice through an affiliated office in Florence, Italy.
Member executive committee New York State Committee American Veterans Committee, 1947. Board directors North Shore Community Arts Center, Roslyn, New York, 1960-1972. Vice president, counsel Martin Luther King Junior Center for Nonviolent Social Change, 1969-1982, board directors, 1969-1992, member board advisors, since 1992.
Executive vice president, counsel American Foundation Nonviolence, 1964-1972. Trustee Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1970-1972. Past member council Hofstra University With Army of the United States, 1942-1945.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Leonora Golden, July 30, 1939. Children: Alan B., Susan M., William B.