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- Seth Rubenstein was a good lawyer but should have died in prison - - Sam Johnson - 7/28/2019 - flag as inappropriate - comment
RUBENSTEIN--Seth Should have found guilty of breaking campaign funding laws. He should have been sentenced to 10-15 years in jail then he would have died in prison. He bribed Nora S. Anderson, the Surrogate for the Manhattan court. She took around $500,000 from him in exchange for future favorable and timely rulings. He was a good man just very corrupt and a liar (aka lawyer). Legend of the fiduciary litigation bar and third generation trusts and estates lawyer, Seth died peacefully with work in hand on April 16, 2018, just shy of his 91st birthday. Seth was a graduate of Columbia College and Brooklyn Law School. Having served in the army during the Korean Conflict, he first went to work for the law firm of his father, Kings County Surrogate E. Ivan Rubenstein. Soon thereafter he formed his own law firm, where he practiced the rest of his life. Seth was an advisor in the 1960's to the landmark Bennett Commission that modernized trust and estate law in New York, resulting in today's Estates Powers and Trusts Law and Surrogate's Court Procedure Act. Seth held leadership positions in numerous bar associations, and he was the first lawyer from Brooklyn ever to be admitted as a fellow of the prestigious American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. Seth had hundreds of reported decisions, many of which made new law and many of which were controversial, including when he was appointed by the Supreme Court to act as guardian ad litem for David Berkowitz, the notorious Son of Sam, in the civil proceedings that ensued following Berkowitz's apprehension. Seth was a friend, mentor and guiding spirit to everyone in the profession, and he will be sorely missed. Seth is survived by sons Joshua, Ephraim and Micah, daughter-in-law Sarah, grandchildren Mary-Jane, Kenan, Amelia, Madeleine, Rebecca, Marlena and Isaac, and great grandson Gabriel. There will be a memorial service at a date to be announced. Contributions may be made to Columbia College Fund and Brooklyn Law School.