Childhood and adolescence; early education; St. John's Law School, 1932-35; work for New York State Mortgage Commission, 1935-36; legal work for Louis Boudin, 1936-48, including labor law cases for United Office and Professional Workers of America; partnership in Neuberger, Shapiro, Rabinowitz, and Boudin (now Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard) 1948- : relations with partners and other lawyers, includ ing Osmond Fraenkel; work with Emergency Civil Liberties Committee 1951- : cases, including Coplon, 1952, Travis, 1966, House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, Vietnam opposition cases, especially Julian Bond in 1965, Benjamin Spock, William Sloan Coffin, and Philip Berrigan in 1968, Iranian litigation over frozen assets, defence of Socialist Workers Party, Church of Scientology, Unification Church; criteria for accepting clients; disputes with judges and U.S. government; personal life including relationship with daughter Kathy Boudin and reflections on her activities; opinions of American judicial system
Lawyers--United States; Law--United States; Law partnership; Civil rights--United States; Labor unions and communism; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Labor laws and legislation; United States Politics and government 1953-1961; Boudin, Leonard, 1912-1989; Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard; United States. Congress
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1983
Physical Description
477 pages
Note (Biographical)
Lawyer
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Biographical interview
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Sound quality is poor at times
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
Interviewed by Norman Issac Silver and Lewis Kornhauser