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American lawyer

Ronald L. Kuby (born July 31, 1956) is an American criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, radio talk show host and television commentator. He has also hosted radio programs on WABC Radio in New York City and Air America radio. Kuby currently leads the Law Office of Ronald L. Kuby in Manhattan.

Kuby was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ruth Miller, a secretary, and Donald Kuby, a salesman. His mother was from a Jewish family and his father, who died in 1990, was a Franciscan friar who converted to Judaism and became a militant Zionist before becoming Christian again. His parents divorced when he was five years old, after which Kuby lived with his mother and grandparents. At 13, he joined the Jewish Defense League under the influence of his father, who was a follower of Meir David Kahane. As a teenager he emigrated to Israel, but returned to the U. S. after being disillusioned by what he describes as "anti Arab racism"

He returned to Cleveland and lived in a commune for the next several years. In 1973, he briefly attended an accredited alternative high school. After graduating, he attended Cleveland State University for one year. Kuby earned his Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 1983. Kuby claims his grades entitled him to a position on the prestigious Cornell Law Review, but he declined the invitation. He also claims to have graduated as one of the top students in his class.

On January 23, 2006, Kuby married Marilyn Vasta, a psychotherapist and climate activist, on the 20th anniversary of their first date. They have one daughter, Emma Vasta Kuby, who is a lawyer with the D. C. based Second Look Project, working on de incarceration.

While in college, Kuby interned with William Kunstler, a senior lawyer with 20 years' experience, notable for many of his sensational cases including the defense of the Chicago Seven. From 1983 until Kunstler's death in 1995, Kuby worked as a partner in Kunstler's law firm, with both men taking up "the fight for the poor, the oppressed and the downtrodden". The two men declared they were not only colleagues, but best friends as well. Kunstler and Kuby never formalized a partnership with a contract or tax filings. Despite a letterhead that read "Kunstler and Kuby", Kuby was paid as an employee and never shared in the firm's profits and losses. On this basis Kuby was denied ownership rights to the firm's case files, accounts, and name after Kunstler died, and Kunstler's widow, Margaret Ratner, put her late husband's archives under lock and key. Kuby filed a complaint against her with the attorney disciplinary committee; the committee dismissed the complaint in August 1996. In December 1996, a court case brought by Ratner to restrain Kuby from using the name "Kunstler & Kuby" resulted in Kuby's being denied any rights in the Kunstler firm.

From 1999 to 2007, Kuby and Curtis Sliwa co hosted a daily radio show titled Curtis and Kuby in the Morning on WABC AM 770, in New York City. After an eight year run, WABC replaced the show with Don Imus and retained Sliwa. Kuby and Sliwa then shared a short lived midday television program on MSNBC. Kuby began broadcasting on Air America Radio in 2008, at first as a replacement for Randi Rhodes, then later with a regular show, Doing Time with Ron Kuby. In May 2009 Air America moved Kuby's show to a new time slot, which took him off of the schedule for many affiliates. By June, his show was removed from Air America's schedule. On January 2, 2014, Curtis and Kuby returned to WABC in the noon 3pm (Eastern) timeslot. He was released from WABC in late May 2017 for budgetary reasons. Kuby is also a frequent pundit and substitute anchor on Court TV and has appeared several times on the Discovery Channel program Oddities, offering legal advice. On May 16, 2008, he was interviewed on the WBGO program Conversations with Allan Wolper. Kuby discussed how the media sometimes convicts criminal suspects in the court of public opinion. Unlike defense lawyers who usually suppress specifics about their residence, family, and habits, Kuby agreed in 2012 to be featured in the weekly New York Times "Sunday Routine" photo report on prominent or colorful New Yorkers. Kuby is also featured in the 2019 Crimetown Podcast The Ballad of Billy Balls which deals with the murder of William Heitzman at the hands of the NYPD in June 1982.

In the film The Big Lebowski (1998), Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (played by Jeff Bridges) demands representation either by Kuby or Bill Kunstler during the Malibu Police Station scene.