He successfully argued a precedent-setting case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet the family of Oyster Bay attorney Donald J. Zoeller remembers him as much for the Zoeller Family Singers.

"It was a weekend and it was raining and we didn't know what we wanted to do that day," recalled Jean Cavaliere, of Randolph, New Jersey, one of his and wife Susan Zoeller’s three adult children. "So he decided he was going to gather the ‘Zoeller Family Singers,’ and we spent the entire day singing songs he tape recorded on a reel-to-reel. My sister Diane was only in kindergarten and my brother Paul was playing rudimentary guitar. And he'd have Paul introduce me, and me introduce Diane and my mother ... I don't know how many people have memories like that, but they are super special."

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