With 25 years of experience in private and public sector litigation and mediation, Robin is a skilled and accomplished commercial litigator and trial attorney. She is also an experienced appellate practitioner and is on the panel of business mediators for the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. Over the course of her career, Robin has represented a variety of developers, banks, individuals, partnerships, and corporations in complex commercial litigation, employment litigation, trusts and estates litigation, and real estate litigation, including lender liability defense, commercial foreclosures, receiverships, and commercial lease disputes.
Robin has received numerous accolades throughout her career. She is nationally recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Real Estate, and was named Best Lawyers’ 2023 “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation – Real Estate in Cleveland. She is repeatedly named to the Ohio Super Lawyers list for Business Litigation.
Robin’s public law experience includes work as an Assistant Law Director and Chief Trial Counsel for Cuyahoga County and as an Assistant Prosecutor in the Civil Division of the Stark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. As a government attorney, Robin litigated and managed potential exposure and risk in complex public sector civil matters including class, multi-plaintiff, individual, and mandamus actions involving leasing, development, contracting, construction, federal and state classified and bargaining employment litigation, public records, and land use including zoning, nuisance abatement, eminent domain, and utilities relocation.
Prior to her career as a lawyer, Robin worked as a TV news writer, producer, reporter, and anchor.
(B.S., Journalism, 1983)
(J.D., cum laude, 1996)
The Gavel student newspaper, Co-Editor
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