Vulfson (Wulfsohn, Wulfson) Leonid Mikhailovich (1908, Libava (Liepaja)) - lawyer. Leonid Vulfson was born into a family of a pharmacist. In 1924 he graduated from the Libava secondary school. In 1924 he entered the Faculty of Economics of the Latvian State University, in 1926 he transferred to the Faculty of Law, from which he graduated in 1930. In 1924-30 he worked as a secretary for the lawyer Abramson in Riga. In 1926-28 he taught Latvian language at a secondary school on a part-time basis. In 1930-32 he did compulsory military service in Libava and Rēžice. In 1932-34 he worked as a secretary for the lawyers Gorkovskis and Lerhis in Libava. At the same time he gave private lessons in foreign languages. In 1934-35 he was a member of the Libava branch of the editorial board of the newspaper Europa-Ost, published by the organ of German anti-fascist emigrants. In 1935-40 he worked as head of chancery in the law office of Kavas and Davids in Riga. In 1938-40 he also worked as a housekeeper.

In 1940 Leonid Vulfson worked as an inspector and senior inspector of labour conflicts (People's Commissariat of Labour) in Riga. In 1940-41 he was head of the tariff and conflict department of the People's Commissariat of Labour. In 1941, he was transferred to the position of Head of the Wages Department of the People's Commissariat of Labour. From July to September 1941 he worked as deputy head of personnel and organiser of labour and wages in the Chuvash Republican office ‘Glavzagotsktot’ of the centre of the NKMMP SSR. In 1942-42 worked as a history teacher in Kazan region. From 1942 he was a member of the Alma-Ata Regional Bar Association. In 1943 he worked as a legal adviser in the OPC of the Special Installation Department No. 6 of the People's Commissariat for Construction of the USSR. After being evacuated to Riga, he was a member of the Bar Association of the LSSR, from which he left at his own request in 1944.

From 1942 Leonid Vulfson was a member of the trade union of the Union of Court and Prosecutor's Office Employees. He had a good command of English, German, Latvian and Russian, and a limited command of French and Kazakh.

Candidate of Law.