Sam Eisenberg, the 98-year-old founding partner of Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin & Lever L.L.P. in White Plains, died Sept. 5 in Rye Brook.
Long engaged in Westchester County”™s civic life, the attorney served as chairman of the Mount Vernon Zoning Board of Appeals and was associate judge and later Mount Vernon City Court judge from 1978 through 1985.
In 1985, Eisenberg at the age of 70 joined his law colleagues in founding Kurzman, Eisenberg, Corbin & Lever. He won the Above the Bar Pace Setter Award in 2010.
Eisenberg in his long life also served as president of the Emanuel Jewish Center in Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon Jewish Community Council, Westchester Day School, Westchester Jewish Conference and the Mount Vernon High School Parent Teacher Association, which he also served as vice president of its scholarship fund. He served on the boards of directors of the Beth El Center and the Mount Vernon YM-YWHA.
A graduate of Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, Eisenberg saw active duty in World War II as a captain in the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. Among other military assignments, he was a General Court-Martial law member.
“As lawyer and judge, Sam brought to the practice of law an integrity and a faith in the rule of law that has ennobled the legal profession,” said Joel Lever, his partner at the White Plains firm.
