Robert is Barclay Damon’s chief ethics and risk management partner and is responsible for all ethics, conflicts, loss-prevention, and CLE activities. In this senior leadership position, he counsels firm attorneys and provides analysis and advice on ethical questions involving conflicts of interest, privileges, and legal issues implicating the Rules of Professional Conduct.
Robert also supervises the firm’s CLE programs, lectures on a wide variety of ethics and practice-management topics, and is responsible for designing and implementing programs and policies to improve the provision of high-quality legal services for firm clients.
Robert has over 39 years of trial and appellate experience in the state and federal courts and serves as a mediator for court-directed and private mediation clients. Over the course of his career, Robert represented large and small corporations, governmental and agency clients as well as individuals. At present, Robert regularly represents lawyers and law firms in disciplinary and professional misconduct matters before the Grievance Committees of the Third and Fourth Judicial Departments of the New York State Supreme Court.
Robert is also chair of the firm's Intake/Conflicts, Opinion, and Billing Committees. He also serves as a member of the firm's Technology Committee.