 At Penn he was president of the debate society, an All-Ivy League fencing champion for epee, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.After graduating from the law school, he began his legal career at what became the Philadelphia law firm of Farage & Shrager.Later he was the senior partner of Shrager, McDaid, Loftus, Flum & Spivey, and finally Shrager, Spivey & Sachs.