Richard K. Lublin

Richard K. Lublin
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Born	(1939-10-15) October 15, 1939 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality	United States of America
Alma mater	Duke University, Cornell Law School
Occupation(s)	Actor, Philanthropist, Lawyer (retired), Educator
Spouse	Jane Lublin

Richard K. Lublin (born October 15, 1939) is an American actor, philanthropist, lawyer and educator.

Early life

Richard K. Lublin was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his B.A. from Duke University in 1961, and graduated from Cornell Law School with his Juris Doctor degree in 1964.

Acting

Richard Lublin entered his part-time acting career in 1995 after retiring from 32 years of active law practice. His legal and acting careers merged in 1998 when he had minor roles as an attorney in “The Practice” and “Ally McBeal”. In 1999 he played a featured role as a judge on “Law & Order”.

He was later cast in the Sidney Lumet film “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” which movie critic Roger Ebert reviewed as “a superb crime melodrama.” In the film, Lublin plays “Mourner #4” and has dialog scenes with noted actors Albert Finney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Ethan Hawke.

Acting Roles

Year	Title	Role	Genre
2011	Luck	Speaking Role	Television - HBO
2009	Rescue Me	New York Fire Chief	Television
2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Mourner #4	Film
2004	Fraiser	Coffee shop customer	Television
1999	Law & Order	Judge	Television
1998	Ally McBeal	Attorney	Television
1998	Chicago Hope	Cardiologist	Television
1998	Chicago Hope	Trauma Surgeon	Television
1998	The Practice	Attorney	Television
1997	Chicago Hope	ER Doctor Vincent Pellitier	Television
1996	Unhappily Ever After	Focus of joke	Television
1995	Married With Children	Mall walker	Television

Early career

After graduating from Cornell Law School, Richard Lublin was admitted to the Ohio State Bar Association in 1964 and the Connecticut Bar Association in 1965. He was admitted to practice before Connecticut’s U.S. District Court in 1969, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 1975 and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1975. Lublin was a founding partner of the law firm Lublin, Wolfe, Kantor and Silver, which had offices in East Hartford and Avon, Conn. He retired from active law practice in 1995.

Richard Lublin returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Duke University, as a guest lecturer in law from 1990-1995. He was a member of Duke University’s Advisory Board of Trustees from 1988 –1994.

Philanthropy

In 1993, Lublin established the Richard K. Lublin Teaching Award as one of four endowed teaching awards presented annually within Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. The Lublin Award recognizes undergraduate teaching excellence across all educational and research programs in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences at Duke University. According to Duke Today, winners of the Lublin Scholarship and other teaching awards “use different approaches in different fields, but students and faculty colleagues said all share a passion for teaching, interest in innovative methods and give priority to developing their students’ capacity to think.” In October 2013, Lublin issued a national plea for other philanthropists to endow additional teaching awards at colleges and universities across the country.

Other educational scholarships established by Lublin include: a student scholarship fund at Duke that awards a stipend to a graduating senior going on to law school, and a college scholarship award to a graduating high school senior in his hometown of Avon, Conn.

Much of Lublin’s philanthropic activity has been devoted to cancer and medical research. As cancer survivors, he and his wife Jane have donated over one million dollars to support cancer treatment and research at the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UConn Health Center. According to a 2010 UConn Foundation report, the couple’s gift “will support the work of leading clinician-scientists including Upendra Hegde, M.D.", an associate director of medical oncology in the melanoma program. Since 2010, the Lublins have been title sponsors for UConn Health Center’s annual “White Coat Gala.” The Lublins were also platinum-level sponsors for the 2013 UConn Cancer Research Golf Tournament, which has raised more than $1.7 million since it began.

In recognition of their extraordinary philanthropic activity, UConn Health bestowed its highest award - the Carole and Ray Neag Medal of Honor - to Richard and Jane Lublin at its annual White Coat Gala held on April 12, 2014. After accepting the Medal of Honor, Richard Lublin said, "The act of giving, multiplied many times, can advance research to new levels in our efforts to eliminate cancer. We've seen what can happen when a great deal of money is given to battle a disease. The AIDS virus was once a death sentence, but adequate funding has allowed pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession to develop a treatment that allows patients to go on with their lives. More progress needs to be made with the hundreds of types of cancer."

The Lublins also established a Prostate Cancer Research Foundation at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. and awarded the Lahey Clinic a grant for research into effective pain management for cancer and trauma patients.

In 2012, they helped establish a research fund for cardiovascular surgery at Hartford Hospital in honor of Dr. Hiroyoshi Takata. Later that year, UConn Today reported that the Lublins made “the first philanthropic gift in support of Bioscience Connecticut initiatives at the UConn Health Center.” According to the Hartford Business Journal, Bioscience Connecticut is “the state’s $864 million attempt to reverse a two-decade-long jobs drought by creating a vibrant bioscience sector.” In recognition of the Lublins’ generosity, UConn Today said the UConn Health Center plans to name the new waiting room in the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center in their honor. In 1997 the Lublins honored the memory of Jane’s father, who died from cancer, by donating the cost of constructing the waiting room at the Davenport-Mugar Cancer Center at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. A plaque displayed in the waiting room reads: “Given in memory of W. Victor Jensen by Richard and Jane Lublin.”

External links

Duke University Teaching Awards: http://trinity.duke.edu/faculty/awards-recognition

UConn Health Center - Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center: http://cancer.uchc.edu/

UConn Health Center - Bioscience Connecticut: http://biosciencect.uchc.edu/

UConn Health Center – Physician Profile Upendra Hegde, M.D.: http://cancer.uchc.edu/physicians/bios/hegde.html