Ellis Rubin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEllis Rubin
American lawyer
Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1925
Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, United States
Date of Death: 12-Dec-2006
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Ellis Rubin
- Ellis S.
- Rubin (June 20, 1925 – December 12, 2006) was an American attorney who gained national fame for handling a variety of highly publicized cases in a legal career that spanned 53 years.
- He was famous for his innovative defenses and his propensity for handling lost causes.
- Rubin won the first case in Florida using the “battered woman” defense.
- He also worked to free a man, James Richardson, who had been wrongly imprisoned for 21 years for fatally poisoning his seven children, and created the nymphomania defense in a case involving prostitution.The Washington Post characterized Rubin as "a Miami lawyer with an affection for the disenfranchised and an outsized knack for publicity in the tradition of P.
- T.
- Barnum [...
- who] capitalized on the flamboyant characters and outrageous crimes endemic to South Florida to present innovative and often unprecedented legal defenses." His tactics were often controversial.
- Judge Wayne L.
- Cobb, who handled the case of a confessed serial killer whom Rubin was defending in 1993, said Rubin was "famous for his psychobabble defenses".
- Throughout his career he took on over 5,000 civil and criminal cases.
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