Michael H. Rubin has conquered many worlds, and now he is branching out into new territory – fiction.
Rubin is a former professional jazz pianist and composer who has played in the New Orleans French Quarter, as well as a former television and radio host. He is an accomplished lawyer who helps manage a law firm that has offices stretching from California to Florida and from Texas and Louisiana to New York.
He has served as an adjunct law professor at the Louisiana State University Law School for more than 30 years, and he is a nationally known speaker whose talks on topics such as legal ethics, negotiations, appellate advocacy, real estate, finance, and trial tactics have been widely praised throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Rubin’s presentations combine an informal style with scholarship, thought-provoking comments, and humor. A former professional musician, Rubin frequently closes his speeches by sitting down at the piano and singing humorous songs composed specifically for the occasion. The nationally distributed American Lawyer magazine, in writing about him, titled its article “CLE Troubadour.” Attendees at Rubin’s talks have given him standing ovations and enthusiastic ratings, including, “Best ethics talk I ever heard;” “Rubin was great;” and “Rubin alone was worth the price of admission.”
Rubin has presented more than 375 major lectures and papers. He is an author, coauthor, and contributing writer of 13 legal books and more than 30 articles for law reviews and periodicals, and his writings have been cited as authoritative by state andfederal courts, including state supreme courts and federal appellate courts.
His latest legal book is Louisiana Security Devices: A Précis (Lexis/Nexis 2011), and his first novel, The Cottoncrest Curse is a legal thriller and multi-generational saga to be published September 10, 2014 by the award-winning LSU Press. The novel will be available nationwide in bookstores and as an e-book.