About Sandra Robinson

Sandra H. Robinson is a trial attorney at The Cochran Firm DC handling catastrophic medical malpractice and personal injury cases. She has settled or won at trial malpractice cases in the six- and seven-figure range; in a single year she won more than $20 million in jury awards on behalf of malpractice victims. Ms. Robinson 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 Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), past president of the Women's Bar Association Foundation, and past president of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington DC.

She has also served on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. She received the AAJ Women Trial Lawyers Caucus Annual Marie Lambert Award, was honored as Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Trial Lawyers Association DC, and in 2003 was named a Star of the Bar by the Women's Bar Association of DC. She is listed in Best Lawyers in America and as a Washington DC Super Lawyer, and has been named one of the Top 50 Women Washington DC Super Lawyers. A native of Virginia, she graduated from Oberlin College and received her law degree from the Catholic University Columbus School of Law.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Cochran Firm (DC)

These results are credited to The Cochran Firm (DC). A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

More than 8,000 women reached a $190 million class-action settlement against Johns Hopkins Hospital after gynecologist Dr. Nikita Levy secretly filmed patients during examinations over a 25-year career.

Baltimore City Circuit Court, MD (state class action) · 2014Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$18.65 millionVerdictTop 20 in Maryland · #12

A Prince George's County jury found University of Maryland Capital Region Health liable for the amputation of Jamie White's leg after two surgeries were delayed for hours following a 2020 slip-and-fall, cutting off oxygen to her limb for an irreversible stretch of time.

Prince George's County Circuit Court, MD · 2026Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$1.28 millionVerdict

A Spotsylvania County, Virginia jury awarded the estate of Joseph Roberts $1.28 million, plus about $170,000 in interest, against Carriage Hill Health & Rehab Center in August 2013. Roberts, a wheelchair user, was left alone outside the nursing home to smoke on June 3, 2011, and his clothes caught fire, causing second- and third-degree burns. The jury cleared the home's parent company, Commonwealth Care, of negligence.

Spotsylvania County Circuit Court, Virginia · 2013Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Catholic University Columbus School of Law
J.D.
Oberlin College
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Washington
State Bar of Maryland

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Washington firms

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$6.17 Million Verdict for Skier Brain-Injured in Fall Off Unmarked Drop-Off at Massanutten Ski Resort
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Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
$5.5 billion · J&J Agrees to Pay at Least $5.5 Billion to Resolve 76,000 Talc-Cancer Claims
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP
$20 Million Judgment Against U.S. for Driver Paralyzed When Smithsonian Bus Ran Red Light
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
$17.11 million · $17.1 Million Verdict After Missed Ectopic Pregnancy Kills Young DC Mother
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
$8.35 million · Record $8.35 Million D.C. Verdict After Knee Surgery Cost an 82-Year-Old His Leg

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.