Nathan Burkan

As he was too young to be admitted to the state bar that year, he initially worked as a stenographer with lawyer Julius Lehmann in the Woolworth Building.

[2] Burkan wasn't a member of a white-shoe firm and never had any partners, although he did have associates and at one point occupied an entire floor of the Continental Building at Broadway and 41st Street.

In 1930, he successfully defended Mae West when she faced obscenity charges over her show Pleasure Man, only to reportedly sue her afterwards for failing to pay his fees.

[3] His clients also included Samuel Goldwyn, Arthur M. Loew, Ernst Lubitsch, Constance Bennett, Walter Wanger, and Jesse Lasky.

Gene Buck, president of the ASCAP, delivered the eulogy, and the services were conducted by Rabbi Nathan A. Perilman and Cantor Moshe Rudinow.

Levy, and Salvatore A. Cotillo, General Sessions Judges Morris Koenig, Owen W. Bohan, George L. Donnellan, and James Garrett Wallace, Federal Judges John C. Knox and Martin T. Manton, Surrogate James A. Foley, Representative Sol Bloom, former Supreme Court Justice Thomas C. T. Crain, Grover A. Whalen, George V. McLaughlin, James J. Hines, A. C. Blumenthal, Will Hays, Irving Berlin, Morris Gest, District Attorney William C. Dodge, Nicholas and Joseph Schenck, and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt.