Wrestling with the Baer

Authors

David Wecht

Abstract

Max Baer was one of a kind. A man of irrepressible energy, of great devotion to family, state, and country, of unstinting dedication to the law and the courts. I met Max not long after I moved back home to Pittsburgh in 1993, after I had practiced law in Washington, D.C., for several years. He was around fifteen years older than me, and he was already a greatly respected jurist, having been elected to the Court of Common Pleas in 1989. Max had been assigned to the family division, as was the general custom for new judges, and he had immediately made his mark there, along with beloved veteran jurists like Larry Kaplan, Tony Wettick, and Gene Strassburger. What a family law bench!

First Page

22

Recommended Citation

David Wecht, Wrestling with the Baer, 62 Duq. L. Rev. 22 (2024).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol62/iss1/6