The senior partner at Seham, Seham, Meltz & Petersen, Martin Charles Seham and his firm were known for their experience on both sides of labor-management issues, and demonstrated a commitment to reaching agreements instead of confrontations for clients in the airline and maritime industry.

A brief notice in the New York Times on April 30 highlighted Seham’s impeccable scholarly accomplishments; he graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1954, then repeated the distinction upon graduation in 1957 from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of both Phi Beta Kappa and the Harvard Law Review. He is the author of a number of leading articles on airline and maritime law, including “The Federal Wage and Hour Law,” published in 1963.

Seham died on April 1 of heart failure at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey.