Karen E. Rubin

Class of 1985

  • Counsel, Thompson Hine LLP

Karen E. Rubin is Counsel at Thompson Hine LLP, where she is a member of the business litigation group and the firm’s Office of General Counsel. In addition, she practices, teaches, and writes in the area of professional responsibility, including malpractice and legal ethics. Rubin graduated from Cleveland-Marshall’s part-time program. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Cleveland State Law Review and the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Health. She is an Adjunct Professor at Cleveland-Marshall, teaching legal ethics, and was honored in 2018 with the Judge Richard M. Markus Adjunct Faculty Award. Rubin has served on the Ohio Supreme Court’s Task Force on the Disciplinary System and is a past Chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Certified Grievance Committee. She is Vice-Chair of the CMBA’s Ethics Committee and also served as Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Ethics Committee. Rubin is a member of the Ohio Women’s Bar Association’s Judicial Selection Committee and is on the executive committee of the Judicial Candidates Rating Coalition. Rubin is a Co-Editor of Thompson Hine’s legal ethics blog, The Law for Lawyers Today, which was named by the ABA Journal in 2016 and 2018 as one of the year’s best law blogs.