Graham Lederman & Co.


Name:  LEDERMAN, GRAHAM AND CO. 
Activity:  Lawyers 
Date Range:  1967–1973 
Quantity:  444 archives boxes 
Description:  Client files that include correspondence, contracts, transcripts, agreements and records of professional costs and details. Client file numbers 6701 - 70777, including K.K. Merz files June 1967 - August 1970. 
Listed:  Not listed 
Accession Number:  77 / 44 
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    Accession Number: 77/44

    Name: LEDERMAN, GRAHAM AND CO.
    Sex:Group: Business, organisations

    Activity:Lawyers

    Location:Melbourne

    Historical Note: Records of two legal firms, Graham Lederman & Co. and Barron Merz & Co., notable for Jewish involvement in property investment.

    Earliest Date: 1967
    Latest Date: 1973
    Access: Restricted
    Quantity: 444 archives boxes

    Description: Client files that include correspondence, contracts, transcripts, agreements and records of professional costs and details. Client file numbers 6701–70777, including K.K. Merz files June 1967–August 1970.

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    Organisations:Barron Merz & Co.

    Places:Melbourne

    Subjects:Law
    Investment

    Listed: Not listed
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Name:  LEDERMAN, GRAHAM AND CO. 
Activity:  Lawyers 
Date Range:  1970-1972 
Quantity:  
Description:  Client files Numbers 71001–7292(?) 
Listed:  Not listed 
Accession Number:  79 / 135 
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    Accession Number: 79/135

    Name: LEDERMAN, GRAHAM AND CO.
    Sex:Group: Business, organisations

    Activity:Lawyers

    Location:Melbourne

    Historical Note: The legal practice of Graham Lederman & Co (which including Barron Merz & Co., represented by Kurt Merz) did quite a lot of work relating to Beneficial Finance (the mortgaging arm of S.A. State Bank); at the end of 1979 the firm went bankrupt, left owing c.$900,000 through the activities of a client of which they claimed to be unaware; the licences of Lederman and Merz were suspended, but they made restitution of the amount owed. By May 1980, their practice was acquired by Barker Harty & Co.

    Earliest Date: 1970
    Latest Date: 1972
    Access: Restricted
    Quantity:

    Description: Client files Numbers 71001–7292(?)

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    Listed: Not listed
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