Top Attorney – E. Leonard Rubin
Northfield, IL WW/Press/November 5, 2021 – E. Leonard Rubin, Principal Counsel with LRubinLaw, is recognized and distinguished in the Top Attorneys of North America 2021-2022 edition by The Who’s Who Directories.
“I recognize that my profession is a service business.” – E. Leonard Rubin 
E. Leonard Rubin is principal counsel with the law firm LRubinLaw, a firm that represents individuals and business clients worldwide. Mr. Rubin, who concentrates his practice in copyright, trademark, defamation, trade secret, privacy and entertainment law, resigned his position a number of years ago as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Playboy Enterprises, Inc., where he had been for 13 years, to return to private practice. He is an arbitrator and certified mediator and has extensive experience handling negotiations, internet implications and complex litigation in the copyright, trademark, communications, publishing, computer, music, television, theatrical and motion picture areas, among others.
Mr. Rubin received a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, 1959 and A.B. University of Miami, 1956. He is a member of the Chicago, Illinois, New York State and American Bar Associations, and is admitted to practice before the Illinois and New York state courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court and the Fifth and Seventh U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. He is a former trustee and executive member of the Copyright Society of the USA.
Mr. Rubin is a Trustee and past president of the Midwest Chapter, and has sat on the Executive Committee, of the Copyright Society of the United States. He has written numerous articles and spoken both in this country and abroad on copyright, trademark, defamation, entertainment and data protection issues.
Mr. Rubin is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Law School, teaching Entertainment Law. He is a former Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law (Copyright Law), the University of Illinois College of Law (Entertainment Law, Copyright and New Technologies Law), and Loyola University Law School (Advanced Copyright Law). He is a former Trustee and Executive Committee member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Mr. Rubin is a past president and Board member of Lawyers for the Creative Arts (which provides free legal help to indigent artists, authors and composers), was a Director of CBA-TV Inc., and for 35 years was the director and co-author of “Christmas Spirits,” the annual social and political musical satire show produced by the Chicago Bar Association. 
Mr. Rubin is distinguished as AV®Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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