Robert B. Garcia

Robert Garcia is an associate in the International Corporate Department. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Garcia was supervising attorney at The Bronx Defenders, where he trained and supervised a team of criminal defense attorneys. Prior to The Bronx Defenders, he tried a number of felony jury trials and litigated novel and complex issues of law as the special litigation attorney at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.

• J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 2001
• B.A., University of California at Berkeley, with honors, 1996

• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  - Subcommittee Chairperson, Committee on Criminal Justice Operations

• “Cross-Racial Identification,” New York State Judicial Institute Seminar (June 2008)
• Developing the Right Facts: Investigation and Discovery, “A New Legal Architecture: Litigating Eyewitness Identification Cases in the 21st Century,” National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, NYU Law School (March 2008)
• Handling Eyewitness Identification Cases, Criminal Justice Update, New York State Defenders Association, Rochester Institute of Technology (November 2007)
• Litigating Identification Cases after People v. Legrand, The Assigned Counsel Plan (September 2007)
• “Turning the Tide: Strategies for Defending Domestic Violence Victims,” The Eleventh Annual Domestic Violence Conference, Fordham Law School (March 2007)
• Criminal Cases in the Supreme Court, Twelfth Annual Supreme Court Round-Up, Center for Social Justice Initiatives, Columbia Law School (October 2006)

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