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Carl Buchholz, Law Firm Leader and Former White House Official, Dies at 51

Carl M. Buchholz, the managing partner of DLA Piper’s Philadelphia office and former managing partner at Blank Rome who spent two years working in the White House after the September 11 attacks, died Monday at the age of 51 after a long illness.

Mr. Buchholz spent most of his career at Blank Rome, rising to managing partner before surprisingly stepping down in March 2011 only six months after he and Chairman Alan J. Hoffman were re-elected to three-year terms. He left the firm a year later for mega-firm DLA and was tapped in 2014 to lead its Philadelphia office.

A commercial litigator by trade, Mr. Buchholz developed a government relations practice as he gained more political connections.

James Brogan, who preceded Mr. Buchholz at DLA Philadelphia managing partner and has been his partner for the past four years, said Mr. Buchholz's greatest quality as a lawyer, manager and friend was his ability to listen.

“A lot of people will pretend to listen,” Brogan said. “But he always listened carefully. Then he would plan. Then he would act. And he always followed through on what he said he would do.

“Even over the course of the last year, he was unflagging in his team play and you could always depend on his word.”

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