LAWRENCE S. ROBBINS is a trial and appellate litigator who handles both criminal and complex civil litigation. Larry has tried dozens of criminal and civil cases in federal and state courts across the country. In addition, Larry has argued eighteen cases in the United States Supreme Court, and some forty others in the federal circuit courts of appeals. Larry also has an active practice representing companies and individuals before the SEC and in other governmental investigations, as well as on appeal from criminal convictions.
Larry served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York from 1983 to 1986, an Assistant to the Solicitor General from 1986 to 1990, an Associate Independent Counsel from 1990 to 1992, and as a partner in the Washington office of Mayer, Brown & Platt thereafter.
Larry’s representations include: representing The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in In re TOUSA, Inc., a fraudulent conveyance action in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division, in which a team of Robbins Russell lawyers secured a judgment in excess of $500 Million; appellate counsel in the successful criminal appeals in United States v. Safavian, 528 F.3d 957 (D.C. Cir. 2008); United States v. e-gold, Ltd., 521 F.3d 411 (D.C. Cir. 2008); United States v. Howard, 517 F.3d 731 (5th Cir. 2008); United States v. Wolff, 2008 WL 123568 (9th Cir. 2008); United States v. Brown, 459 F.3d 509 (5th Cir. 2006); and United States v. Hurwitz, 459 F.3d 463 (4th Cir. 2006); appellate counsel for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby; representing the Judicial Council of a federal circuit court in litigation arising from a grand jury subpoena; representing “Big Four” accounting firms, as well as their partners, former partners, and employees, in an array of SEC and DOJ investigations; representing a large financial institution in a multi-billion dollar litigation arising from a failed structured financing.
Larry received a B.A. in economics, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1974 from Yale University, and a J.D., magna cum laude, in 1978 from Harvard Law School, where he served as Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
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