New York LGBT Bar Board Member Dies of Coronavirus Complications

Richard E. Weber, a litigation partner and longtime board member of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, has died due to complications of coronavirus, the association said.

Weber, 57, had been a board member of the bar group, known as LeGaL, since 2013. He also served on the organization’s judicial committee, and as the organization’s secretary and second vice president.

As a board member, Weber helped manage LeGaL’s free legal clinic, which was established after the AIDS epidemic and serves low-income LGBT people in New York.

“That was the kind of work he was involved with, making sure ...