Victor Rabinowitz, 96, Leftist Lawyer, Dies

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Source: New York Times

Victor Rabinowitz, 96, Leftist Lawyer, Dies

By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: November 20, 2007

Victor Rabinowitz, a leftist lawyer whose causes and
clients over nearly three-quarters of a century ranged
from labor unions to Black Panthers to Cuba to Dashiell
Hammett to Dr. Benjamin Spock to his own daughter,
died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 96.

His son Peter announced the death.

For much of his career, Mr. Rabinowitz teamed up with
the lawyer Leonard B. Boudin, who died in 1989, to
defend clients like Julian Bond, Daniel Ellsberg, Paul
Robeson, the Rev. Philip Berrigan, Rockwell Kent and
Alger Hiss. The pair did not take the espionage case of
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, only because they were
already defending someone else accused of being a spy.

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