Cable Plus, a telecommunications system in Port St. Lucie providing television, Internet, telephone, and alarm monitoring services; Treasure and Space Coast Broadcasting which operates five radio stations on Florida’s East Coast; Co-Founder and President of Hollywood Media Corporation, and Co-CEO of Hollywood.com, a major Internet provider of entertainment news and information. During her years of practice, she would find herself paired on a transaction with another lawyer and former classmate from her days at Miami Beach High School, Mitchell
Rubenstein. The pairing proved an extremely winning combination leading to a joint law practice in Boca Raton and later, marriage. Silvers and Rubenstein have been very generous to her alma mater. Their latest gift to the University of Miami School of Law creates two scholarships: The Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Endowed Scholarship, and the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein non-Endowed Scholarship. Previously, they have established the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Endowed Distinguished Professorship and are lead sponsors for Miami Law’s We
Robot annual conference. Silvers is also a UM Trustee, on the School of Law’s Momentum2 Committee and Visiting Committee, the Dean’s Council, and the Heritage Society. “I believe that great education creates great opportunities for our students,” Silvers said. “We can attract the best students if we have scholarships to help them afford their education and can also offer them distinguished, world-class professors. That is what I am trying to accomplish through my past and present gifts.” Silvers had come to Miami with her family at the age of 12. Her father was a veteran of Illinois cable and broadcast systems and expanded his holdings into South Florida. She had left the uncertain world of snowstorms and tornados (they lost part of their home to a twister) to what she could only describe as paradise. “I never realized that there was a place on the planet where it was spring and summer twelve months of the year,” she said. The almost-native would study psychology, political science, and philosophy at the University of Miami—it’s all related, she would say—before arriving in the world of torts and certs. There, she would feel she really clicked. “I love the law. From an intellectual perspective, I find it challenging and interesting,” the Springfield, Illinois native said. “I was the one who would brief and re-brief Supreme Court decisions because I just loved the cases.” The couple has now been married for thirty years and they have three children: two are graduates of Miami Law, and the third is currently studying at UM toward a Ph.D. in Psychology.
Momentum2 Campaign
LAURE SILVERS, J.D. ’77 AND MITCHELL RUBENSTEIN
BREAKTHROUGH Campaign
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