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.

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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$10 million · Runaway Norfolk Southern Boxcar Crushes a Richmond Floodwall Worker: $10 Million Verdict
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$8.85 million · Benedi v. McNeil: $8.85 Million Tylenol Verdict Over a Missing Liver Warning
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
$35.6 million (capped to $2.2 million) · $35.6 Million Verdict After Elective Back Surgery Left Woman with Severe Brain Damage
Regan Zambri Long Personal Injury Lawyers
Regan Zambri Long Personal Injury Lawyers
Settlement Reached in $20 Million Wrongful Death Suit Over Murder of Washington Attorney Robert Wone
Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP
$5.5 billion (minimum) · J&J Agrees to Pay at Least $5.5 Billion to Resolve 76,000 Talc-Cancer Claims