Education

J.D., with honors, Harvard Law School, 1980

Articles Editor, Harvard Law Review

B.A., magna cum laude, Furman University, 1977

Phi Beta Kappa

Clerkship
The Honorable Paul H. Roney, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Bar Memberships
Georgia

Florida

Richard Robbins

Richard has been involved in a broad spectrum of business litigation and arbitrations throughout the country, from Georgia and Florida to Hawaii to Maine. Richard has particular experience in real estate litigation, technology litigation, and restrictive covenants and trade secret litigation, but handles business litigation of any type.

In business litigation, he has prevailed in a host of significant reported cases. These include AT&T Mobility, LLC v. NASCAR, 494 F.3rd 1356 (11th Cir. 2007) (intellectual property dispute involving NASCAR race car logos); Spurling v. The Forestland Group, LLC, 2006 U.S. App. Lexis 17079 (6th Cir. 2006) (commercial brokerage litigation); Hill v. Atlanta Life Ins. Co., 988 F.2d 1218 (11th Cir. 1993) (securities tender offer law); Owens v. Storehouse, Inc., 984 F.2d 394 (11th Cir. 1993) (ERISA law); Cordova v. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. Lexis 90309 (S.D. Fla. 2007) (securities litigation); IPM v. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. Lexis 31066 (S.D. Fla. 2007) (securities litigation); Whitaker v. Texaco Inc., 566 F. Supp. 745 (N.D. Ga. 1983) (ERISA law); Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia v. Shorter College, 279 Ga. 466 (2004) (non-profit law); Amdahl Corp. v. Ga. Dept. of Administrative Services, 260 Ga. 690 (1990) (government procurement law); All Fleet Refinishing, Inc. v. West Georgia National Bank, 280 Ga. App. 676 (2006) (bank litigation); Broadcast Concepts, Inc. v. Optimus Financial Services, 274 Ga. App. 632 (2005) (upholding of $1 million trial verdict); Equifax v. 1600 Peachtree, LLC, 268 Ga. App. 186 (2004) (lease guaranty law); O’Neal v. Home Town Bank of Villa Rica, 237 Ga. App. 325 (1999) (libel law).

Richard has written articles and spoken at seminars on a wide variety of topics, including eminent domain, real estate contract disputes, zoning, business loss and valuation, employment law, intellectual property, health care litigation and technology. He is an instructor in an intensive trial practice course offered annually at Emory University School of Law.

Richard has been selected annually by Atlanta Magazine as a "Georgia Super Lawyer" in Business Litigation and as one of the “Legal Elite” in Business Law by Georgia Trend Magazine. He is also included in "The Best Lawyers in America."