Israel “Russ” Rubin, a jurist who spent 14 years on the Appellate Division, First Department and finished his legal career as co-chair of the national appellate practice group at Greenberg Traurig, died Friday at 87.
A 1950 graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, Rubin initially worked with Milton Mokotoff in Manhattan and later became a partner in Mokotoff, Rubin & Monshine. He left private practice in 1970 to become an assistant corporation counsel and, three years later, was elected to Supreme Court in the Bronx.
