Lawrence S. Robbins was an acclaimed trial and appellate litigator who argued twenty cases in the United States Supreme Court, and sixty others in the federal circuit courts of appeals. He served as counsel to Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and the Biden campaign, among others. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law, he served on the United States Court of Appeals, founded Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner, and was a partner at Friedman Kaplan. His first novel, The President’s Lawyer, was published shortly before his death in 2024.