From The Louisville Courier-Journal: Herb Segal, the king of Kentucky's labor lawyers when labor was still king, has died
By AMANDA WOLFSON
Herb Segal, who was the king of Kentucky’s labor lawyers, died Feb. 8 at the Masonic Home of Kentucky, according to his daughter, Troy Segal. He was 94 and had Alzheimer’s disease.
In his six decades as a labor lawyer, Segal defended waiters, electrical workers, machinists, pari-mutuel clerks, librarians, government workers, firefighters, police, autoworkers, service workers, cooks, iron workers, typesetters, paper workers and more.
He was an unapologetic liberal who said he decided to represent labor as a child in the 1930s, when he watched newsreels showing massive sit-down strikes at auto plants.