Loeb & Loeb history

He died in 1911 a few years after Edwin and Joe started the firm.

In 1914 their friend the socially prominent Irving Walker joined them and the firm became Loeb, Walker, and Loeb.

Chairman of Bar Association Grievance Committee: 1915

My Mother and Father went with Edwin, Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer to the first academy awards in 1928 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where some years later Edwin lived.

Plan and Scope Committee of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee: 1938

DOUGLASS: Were you on the Board of Education when the Report, the Master Plan for Higher Education, was done? That was 1946-47.

Board of Directors of Welfare Federation of Los Angeles Area: 1949

Leon subsequently left Loeb and Loeb to become Vice President of Max Factor before returning to the firm in 1960, and eventually became the first managing partner of the firm after Edwin Loeb.

Loeb retired from law practice in June of 1965.

Due to Frank Feder’s foresight, the firm developed the field of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, and the remarkable and philanthropic Walter Hilborn who came into the office every day until his demise at 96 in 1976.

Program for Seventy Fifth Anniversary of The Academy Awards 2002