I was privileged not only to work with Abe but also to share his initials.  One year this led to some confusion in the Firm directory, which used my undistinguished picture next to Abe’s much more distinguished bio.  Abe took it philosophically in a typically witty and gracious note :  “I am pleased to know that you are me.  Of course, that leaves open the question of who am I ...   I decline to assign you rights to my wife and children.  Everything else is yours.” 

My condolences to Abe’s family. May his memory ever be for a blessing.

Abe was still coming in to the office regularly when I joined Arnold & Porter in 2014.  I had the honor of moderating a panel with him on his work on Gideon v. Wainwright just a year ago - he was brilliant as ever and delighted to talk about that legendary case.  It was a pleasure to know him and a privilege be his colleague at the firm.

Although I did not have the good fortune to work with Abe, I knew him for many years, from the time that I was a young associate until I retired from the partnership.  He always treated me with great courtesy and respect.  Roberta Horton

Abe was the first person I encountered at Arnold & Porter, interviewing me for what turned out to be the job of a lifetime 42 years ago.  I knew at once that I just HAD to come to A&P to work with him.  I remember traveling with him to Kentucky to watch him argue a motion to dismiss in federal court and thinking “this is how the best ones argue a big case.”  Abe loved the Firms’s pro bono practice, and he and I spent long hours talking about it over the years.  I have heard his talk about Gideon over and over, and I drew inspiration from it every time.  But most of all I remember one of the classiest and most decent people I have ever known.  As much as anyone, he was the real spirit of Arnold & Porter, and a wonderful friend and teacher.  I was blessed to spend some time with him a few months ago, sharp as ever.  There were none better.  To his family I send my condolences, along with a reminder of how lucky they and we are to have had him in our lives for so long.

Phil Horton

Abe was my teacher at Yale Law School, in a course he offered called "Litigation and Advocacy."  He was then my mentor and friend as a young associate at Arnold & Porter between 1981 and 1985.  He taught me the most important things about being a good lawyer and a mentsch.  His stories about his father riding circuit as an itinerant rabbi in Wyoming were remarkable.  Though he was one of the most powerful figures among a legendary group of leaders at A&P, he was always humble, and he could always make one laugh.  A greater man I've never known.  Baruch dayan emeth.  
Boris Feldman.

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Abraham Krash

April 26, 1926 – July 6, 2024

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