Day: February 23, 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 By Kathy Daley LIBERTY—Lawrence Stier graduated from the best law school in the nation but he didn’t flaunt it and those he encountered wouldn’t have guessed it. “Larry was friendly, warm and low-key, so most people had no idea he graduated from Harvard Law School,” said local attorney Garry Greenwald. “He was a superb attorney, very, very bright, a fabulous judge and a decent man,” Greenwald noted. You could tell when had to sentence someone to jail that it was difficult for him. But he knew that he had to apply the law.” Stier, age 83, of Liberty died Sunday morning of complications from cancer. Continue reading