Richard Grand

Richard Grand, a Tucson attorney at the vanguard of pushing wrongful-death and injury payments into the millions of dollars, died April 2013 in San Francisco. He was 83. Since graduating from the University of Arizona's law school in 1958, Grand won his clients a settlement or verdict of more than $1 million apiece in more than 100 cases. Grand loved theater, even traveling to London with his wife of 61 years, Marcia, to see a show. A wall of Grand's San Francisco apartment was covered in his teddy bear collection. He moved Tucson in 1951 after about 12 years in New York.Grand was born in 1930 in what is now Gdansk, Poland, but his family fled to the United States as anti-Semitism rose in advance of World War II. He is survived by his wife, Marcia, and daughter, Cindy.