Five decades ago, Ed Reicin began his career as an attorney after graduating from the University of Illinois College of Law with a Juris Doctor. Focusing his practice on trial law, Ed Reicin eventually became Managing Partner at his own firm, Gordon, Reicin, West, and Rosenbloom. Ed Reicin was named Illinois’ Lawyer of the Year in 1969 and published several articles on wrongful death legislation. In order to better serve his community, Ed Reicin created legal clinics and volunteered for many legal organizations, like the Indigent Prisoners Committee of the Niles Township Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association's Volunteer Observers Committee. In 1975, MPC Containment Systems, LLC. hired Ed Reicin as its President and he helped grow the company into a 200-person firm with $50 million in revenues.
MPC Containment creates industrial membrane lining and often receives long-term contracts with the United States military; Ed Reicin serves as the point of contact for this important client, and MPC Containment also provides its services to other countries' armed forces. MPC Containment’s affiliate company, M. Putterman & Co., also took on Ed Reicin as President. As a sports equipment manufacturer, M. Putterman & Co. created equipment for Major League Baseball and the National Football League. When a private equity firm bought both companies in 2007, Ed Reicin remained to guide the businesses as a Consultant.
In his spare time, Ed Reicin performs in operas professionally with groups like the Israel Vocal Arts Institute, L'Opera Piccola, and the Opera Studio of Highland Park. Ed Reicin also contributes to several charity organizations that focus on opera and served as the Development Chairman of the Central Region for the Metropolitan Opera National Council. Ed Reicin avidly reads both fiction and non-fiction. Ed Reicin enjoys authors like Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and Saul Bellow and books like Moby Dick and The Assistant. Ed Reicin also likes biographies of former presidents like Adams and Truman.