Robert L. Steed is a partner in the law firm of King and Spalding, Atlanta. While a student at Mercer University (A.B. 1958) and Walter F. George School of Law (LL.B. cum laude 1961) he was, respectively, editor of the Mercer Cluster and the Mercer Law Review. In recognition of his vocational, civic, and alumnus dedication and accomplishments, his alma mater honored him in 1979 with an LL. D. degree.
Concerning his alter ego, Willard, Steed claims: “The decision of MUP to inflict a republican of the Willard columns on an unsuspecting public is, in my mind, a clear demonstration of the verity of two maxims: (1) ‘No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public’ (H. L. Mencken); and (2) ‘The evil that men do lives after them while the good is oft interred with their bones; (Mark Antony).”