Sandra Robinson

Sandra H. Robinson is a trial attorney with The Cochran Firm in Washington, D.C., where she handles catastrophic medical malpractice and personal injury cases. She has resolved malpractice cases by settlement and at trial in the six- and seven-figure range, and the firm notes that in a single year she won more than $20 million in jury awards for victims of malpractice.

Robinson has served as president of the Civil Justice Foundation and was the first African American president of the Public Justice Foundation. She is a past member of the American Association for Justice Board of Governors and a past president of both the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., and the Women’s Bar Association Foundation. She has also co-chaired the National Bar Association’s Trial Advocacy Section and taught on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Her honors include AAJ’s Marie Lambert Award, Trial Lawyer of the Year from the Trial Lawyers Association of D.C. and a 2003 Star of the Bar designation from the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. A Virginia native, she graduated from Oberlin College and earned her law degree from the Catholic University Columbus School of Law. She is a member of the D.C. and Maryland bars.