Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP is a

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. The firm was founded in 1854 by

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and

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Former partners

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'', and nominee for

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* William Harding Jackson,

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was once an associate. * Frank Wisner, a head of

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operations in southeastern Europe at the end of

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. *

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, a judge of the

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