Benjamin Kaye

Benjamin Mark Kaye (1884 – March 25, 1970) was an American lawyer known for co-founding the international law firm Kaye Scholer. He was also a playwright who wrote and translated several Broadway plays. Biography Kaye was born in 1884 in New York City. He graduated from Columbia College in 1904 and Columbia Law School in 1907. After being admitted to the bar in 1907, Kaye received legal training at the office of the noted trial lawyer Max Steuer. Kaye was trained a specialist in federal income taxation and became one of the lawyers first to try a federal income tax case under the Revenue Act of 1913. In 1917, Kaye founded the law firm Kaye Scholer with Jacob Scholer. The law firm merged with Arnold & Porter in 2016.