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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 8, 2016

Memphis lawyer David Caywood died Wednesday (Sept. 7) after suffering a stroke a few weeks earlier. He was 79. As a young lawyer at Burch, Porter & Johnson, Caywood was recruited by his father-in-law, Lucius Burch, to help represent sanitation strikers in Memphis during the height of the civil rights movement. Burch and Caywood met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel the day before King was assassinated. Caywood went on to practice for 50 years mostly in the area of family law. He also represented former state senator John Ford and the wife of a FedEx pilot who was found beaten and burned while attempting to divorce her husband. The Commercial Appeal has more on his life. Funeral arrangements are pending.