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178: 103:, and assisted clients in passport cases, loss of employment and other legal matters arising from the targeting of individuals in government security investigations. The firm has been deeply involved in civil rights work and, during the Vietnam War, successfully defended, on First Amendment grounds, some of the leading opponents of the war, as well as draft resisters and conscientious objectors. 95:. Rabinowitz and Boudin were the senior partners, joined by Michael Standard, Michael Krinsky, and Eric Lieberman. (Krinsky and Lieberman remain senior attorneys to the present.) The firm's papers, held by the Tamiment Library of New York University, describes it as follows: 75:
Rabinowitz was hired right out of law school by the progressive law firm Hays, Podell and Shulmman. Rabinowitz was a law clerk at Hays, Podell until mid-1938, when Rabinowitz followed Hays, Podell junior partner, the leftist Ben Algase, into the firm of
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The FBI file on black leader Floyd McKissick reveals that, in 1967, he "received Check Number 2665 made out in his name and drawn against the account of the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation, Incorporated, in the amount of $
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candidate Abraham J. Multer for the Fourteenth Congressional District of New York, caused by the resignation of Leo F. Rayfiel (appointed as a United States district judge).
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Rabinowitz was married twice, first to the former Marcia Goldberg of Brooklyn, New York, and following their divorce in 1967, he married filmmaker, journalist and author
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In 1951, Rabinowitz joined more than half a dozen other lawyers in defending 17 Communist Party members, including
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at Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections.
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member and Leonard Boudin's daughter, pled guilty to murder as part of armored truck robbery.
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In 1963, when daughter Joni Rabinowitz was convicted of perjury regarding work for the
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He chaired the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation for his father. A 1967 file from the
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candidate against Republican candidate Jacob P. Lefkowitz and Democratic/
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In 1984, he played an "important role in anchoring the defense" when
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Review of Rabinowitz' autobiography by John Mage of "Monthly Review"
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in 1937 and served as its national president from 1967 to 1970.
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The firm represented numerous labor unions, most notably the
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From 1942 until the early 1960s, he was a member of the
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He died at his Manhattan home on November 16, 2007.
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dissidents
Brooklyn, New York
Louis M. Rabinowitz
Lithuania
University of Michigan
BA
University of Michigan Law School
JD
Louis B. Boudin
Leonard Boudin
Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman
New York City
American Communications Association
Julian Bond
Paul Robeson
Alger Hiss
Benjamin Spock
Daniel Ellsberg
Dashiell Hammett
Church of Scientology
Jimmy Hoffa
Chile
Salvador Allende
Cuban government
Cuba
Rockwell Kent
Fellowship of Reconciliation
American Labor Party
Liberal Party of New York

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