Schulte Roth Founder Played Key Role in Real-Life ‘Loving’ Case

Attorney Bill Zabel said the new movie “Loving” accurately portrays the struggles of a white man and a black woman whose U.S. Supreme Court case overturned laws against interracial marriage.

How would a trusts and estates attorney who has represented some of the nation’s richest people know?

Zabel, founding partner of New York-based Schulte Roth & Zabel, wrote the winning brief for the ACLU in Loving v. Virginia, which was decided in 1967 and is now the basis for a film directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga.

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