Richard Henry Sayler
Richard Henry Sayler passed away Wednesday, August 7, 2015 in Bentleyville Village, Ohio.
He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 48 years Lucinda ("Cindy") Sayler.
He is survived by their daughter Kristina Sayler - Belfatto of New York, their son David (Katie) Sayler of Ohio,
and their daughters Jennifer (Mrs. Channing) Hamlet of California and Lindsay (Mrs. Jeff) Gips of Ohio;
grandsons Ian Belfatto, Jack and Luke Gips, and Connor and Liam Sayler.
Dick is also survived by his committed life partner Martha J. Lockwood of Maryland, extended family and many friends.
A native of Rochester, N. Y., Dick graduated from Dartmouth College and Michigan Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review. He was law clerk for Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the Court of Appeals for Second Circuit and Associate Justice Byron R. White of the U. S. Supreme Court. Thereafter, he served for several years in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice as Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General and was present during the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" during the Nixon Administration in 1973. A litigator throughout his career, following government service he practiced privately with major law firms in New York City, Dayton and Cleveland. He was managing partner of Smith & Schnacke in Dayton and retired from Jones Day in Cleveland in 2008. Dick had since been actively involved as an arbitrator or mediator in some significant cases, especially ones involving disputes over intellectual property rights.A member of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Dick was also a non-resident member of The National Press Club, Washington, D.C., and the Pine Lake Trout Club, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Visitation with the family was held August 23, 2015 at Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Services were private. The family asks that donations be sent to the American Diabetes Association (Baltimore, Maryland) or the Scleroderma Foundation (Danvers, Massachusetts).