About Stephen Bernard
Stephen Bernard Ruben is a licensed attorney licensed to practice law within the State of California. He used to be admitted to the California State Bar in 1992 and holds bar quantity 160034. His license is currently in active status. Mr. Ruben is the managing director of The Ruben Law Firm, P.C., a household regulation firm located in San Francisco, California. He has been working as an attorney for over 30 years, serving clients across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mr. Ruben earned his law degree degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1973. Prior to law school, he finished his undergraduate schooling at Bethany College in West Virginia, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. During his time at Chicago-Kent, he used to be recognized for his academic achievements and graduated with honors.
Mr. Ruben focuses on household law, specializing in complicated, high-asset dissolution cases, monetary problems, spousal and financial child support, high-clash custody disputes, and dissolution of non-marital and domestic partnerships. He has extensive knowledge in all phases of household regulation litigation, which includes trial and appellate work, mediation, binding dispute resolution, early neutral case assessment, and personal judging. His practice also encompasses international parental custody instances involving relocation and baby abduction beneath the Hague Convention.
Throughout his profession, Mr. Ruben has treated cases in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and the United States Supreme Court. He has additionally seemed earlier than the California Court of Appeal on more than one events. Prior to founding his own firm, he worked as a prosecutor in Chicago and served as a Special Assistant Illinois Attorney General and Special Administrator for the Probate Court in Cook County.
Mr. Ruben is a member in good standing of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Illinois. He is likewise a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, and the Lawyers Club of San Francisco. He has been acknowledged as a Northern California Super Lawyer since 2007 and used to be awarded the Family Law Litigator of the Year in California by the Family Law Institute in 2019. Mr. Ruben is fluent in English and Spanish, allowing him to serve a diverse clientele effectively.
