Melvin J. Sykes of Brown, Goldstein & Levy passed away. He was 93.
Mr. Sykes was a solo practitioner for most of his 67 years as a lawyer. He maintained offices in the Munsey Building in Baltimore and later the Maryland Bar Center and Sun Trust Building. He has argued more than 200 cases in Maryland’s appellate courts.
From 1970 to 1978 Mr. Sykes served as a member of the Governor’s Commission to Revise the Annotated Code of Maryland. He was of counsel at Brown, Goldstein & Levy when he retired in 2015.
Read the Baltimore Sun obituary.