Harold Horvitz

In 1928, the Guterman brothers saw the need for greater professional training and hired Harold Horvitz, a graduate of Tufts College and Harvard Law School, Class of 1925, to assist them.Harold was a lawyer's lawyer whose professional standards tolerated no mediocrity.By the late 1930s, the Firm had 8 lawyers, was solidly established, and was then located at 50 Federal Street.

Harold became a leader quickly and trained, tutored, bullied, encouraged and developed every lawyer who came into the Firm in his time.He was no less forceful with co-counsel, opposing counsel and clients.He insisted that all lawyers engaged by the Firm have solid academic credentials, a principle the Gutermans wholeheartedly endorsed.Neither clients, nor matters, nor counsel were in any sense adrift when Harold was in charge.He officially retired in 1979, but continued to practice on a part-time basis into the early 1980s and handled his last major transaction in 1981."Harold" stories persist.As an example, Harold had the same secretary for nearly 55 years, but they were never on a first name basis.He ferociously edited imprecise text.His immaculate appearance and cultured syntax contrasted with his not-infrequent lapses into street vocabulary.For Harold, there was right and wrong and he had strong opinions of which was which.He set a standard for craft and unyielding integrity remarkable in any era.Always interested in the organized bar, Harold was president of the Massachusetts Bar Association in the early 1960s.
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Upon Abe Guterman's death, the Firm name changed to Guterman, Horvitz and Rubin.