Horace S. Manges (1898 – February 11, 1986) was an American lawyer, specializing in copyright law.
[1] He was a founding partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges in 1931.
[2] He became an authority on copyright law and served as a counsel to the American Book Publishers Council from 1953 to 1970.
[1] He advised publishers like Charles Scribner IV,[3] and also represented many authors, including William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Truman Capote, Whittaker Chambers, and James Jones.
[1] Together with Frank Weil and Sylvan Gotshal he founded Weil, Gotshal & Manges in 1931, which as of 2016[update] is one of the largest law firms in the world.