Joshua M Robbins

Practice Areas

White Collar & Investigations

Litigation

Dispute Resolution

Health Care Law

Trade Secrets, Employee Mobility & Restrictive Covenants

Latin America Practice

FDA Regulatory Compliance Group

Career

Winning bet-the-company litigation means cutting through complexity to tell a simple, clear, and compelling story. Josh Robbins, a former federal prosecutor and Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar & Investigations practice, does exactly that for businesses and individuals in the life sciences, technology, and financial industries in cases involving allegations of fraud, kickbacks, unfair competition, and other sensitive issues.

He does it before juries. He has tried and won both civil and criminal cases, for plaintiffs and defendants, involving subjects as varied as patent infringement, health care fraud, securities law violations, and whistleblower retaliation. His victory in a rare antitrust trial based on claims of bad-faith patent enforcement was named one of the Top Defense Verdicts of the Year by the Daily Journal.

He does it before judges. As lead counsel in over two dozen appeals in both state and federal courts, he has briefed, argued, and won cases involving constitutional rights, evidentiary questions, novel jury instructions, and other issues. And he has prevailed in both international and domestic arbitrations concerning subjects from technology licensing agreements to international investment treaties.

He does it before government enforcers. Often, Josh is called on when the Department of Justice or another law enforcement agency has opened an investigation of a company or executive, including in matters potentially involving hundreds of millions of dollars in exposure. Repeatedly, even after office raids and grand jury subpoenas have drawn coverage in the Wall Street Journal or New York Times, he has persuaded the government not to bring charges.

Josh is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. After law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; an associate in the Washington, DC office of a major international law firm; and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California. He has repeatedly been named by the Daily Journal as one of the Top White Collar Lawyers in California, by Benchmark Litigation as a Litigation Star, and by Best Lawyers in America as a leading white collar and securities litigator.

Professional Memberships

President, Harvard Law School Association of Orange County

Member, Merit Selection Panel, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Volunteer Judge, U.C. Irvine Law School Moot Court Competition