Bernard W. Rubenstein, labor lawyer (Vet of WWII and voice for the workers past away)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.rubenstein18mar18,0,126865.story

By Frederick N. Rasmussen
March 18, 2009

Bernard W. Rubenstein, a retired Baltimore labor lawyer who was a partner in the firm of Abato, Rubenstein and Abato, died March 11 of heart failure at his winter home in Stuart, Fla. He was 88.

Mr. Rubenstein was born in Philadelphia and moved with his family to a Reservoir Hill home in 1924.

He was a 1937 graduate of City College and earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1940.

From 1942 to 1946, he served as an Army staff sergeant in the Aleutian Islands. After leaving the Army, he earned his law degree from Yale University in 1948.

Mr. Rubenstein began practicing law in 1948 and in 1961 was named a partner in the firm of Edelman, Levin, Levy, and Rubenstein, which later became Edelman and Rubenstein.

In 1984, the firm merged to form Abato, Rubenstein and Abato, which specialized in representing labor unions, including the Amalgamated Transit Union Division, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers, the Teamsters, the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

FULL story at link.