Bentley Kassal
Bentley Kassal is an attorney and litigation counsel with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher amp Flom in New York City. He is a retired New York State Assemblyman, a retired judge of the New York State Courts at every level, and a World War II veteran. An early rugby football player, he was a member of the 1940 Harvard Rugby Football team, which was the undefeated champion of the Eastern Rugby League. Kassal is married to Barbara Joan Wax Kassal, a retired business executive from Bonwit Teller in New York City.
Kassal was born in the Harlem area of Manhattan, New York City, on February 28, 1917, to Pauline Nirenberg Kassal and Hyman Kassal, born in Poland and Austria, respectively. Kassal graduated from Public School 86 in the Bronx , Townsend Harris High School in Manhattan , University of Pennsylvania, B.A. and Harvard Law School, J.D. , where he received a merit scholarship for his third year. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in September 1940 and was an associate in two midsized law firms until the American entry into World War II.
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