Steven R. Rubenstein has been a partner of Rubenstein, Meyerson, Fox, Mancinelli, Conte & Bern, P.A. since its founding in 1988. His practice has focused on family law for most of his 41-year career. He has handled thousands of divorce cases. He is certified by the State of New Jersey as a matrimonial law attorney, and he is also certified as a divorce mediator. Mr. Rubenstein is generally considered to be one of the premier divorce mediators in Bergen County and is a founding member of the New Jersey Collaborative Law Group. He was named in 2003 to Ten Leaders of Matrimonial & Divorce Law of Northern New Jersey and in 2012 and 2013 as a New Jersey Super Lawyer.
In 1992, Mr. Rubenstein and his partner, Lawrence N. Meyerson, represented Hana Fhima, a Rockland County, New York woman in a highly publicized custody case in which her son, Shai Fhima Rueven, was abducted by an orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn. The son was missing for two years, and when he was finally located, Mr. Rubenstein and Mr. Meyerson represented Hana in a protracted but ultimately successful custody litigation case.
Mr. Rubenstein and partner, Lawrence Meyerson founded the firm in September 1988 and have practiced continuously together for those 25 years.