Meet the Bar Leaders: Richard Klass decides on law career after father’s business ends, parents split
Richard Klass grew up with the assumption that he would someday take over his father’s advertising and print business. After all, he had started working with his father from the age of 13 and went to Hofstra University to major in communications with the idea that it would help him down that path.
Then one day during his senior year, his favorite professor Sondra Rubenstein told him that she didn’t think that he was right for the field. She suggested law school instead. But Klass was just weeks away from graduation, and initially brushed off the suggestion.
Still the thought lingered with him and Klass decided to at least take the LSAT to keep his options open. The morning he was scheduled to take the LSAT, Klass’ mother dropped a bomb on him.