Robin Greenwald manages Weitz & Luxenberg’s Environmental Torts and Consumer Class Action Unit. She has litigated environmental cases for the entirety of her 40-year law practice. She has served in lead counsel capacities as a federal environmental civil enforcement attorney and criminal prosecutor, and since entering private practice, she has held many lead and plaintiffs’ steering committee positions.

Robin started her career with the Department of Justice for 16 years, first as Asst. U.S. Attorney for the E.D. of New York and then as Asst. Chief of the Env. Crimes Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, DOJ. While at the DOJ, Robin received the U.S. Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in 1992. Following her tenure with the DOJ, Robin was appointed as General Counsel for the Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. In each position, Robin used the environmental statutes and other laws to attain her goal of protecting human health, wildlife and the environment. She litigated cutting edge and complex environmental litigation throughout her time as a litigator with the federal government.

After 18 years in public service, Robin became the Exec. Director of Waterkeeper Alliance, a not-for-profit water protection organization with hundreds of member programs around the world. Subsequently, she was a Clinical Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School.

Robin joined Weitz & Luxenberg in 2005. She has continued her goal of protecting human health and the environment in many important litigations. Currently she is co-lead counsel in the Roundup MDL against Monsanto. Robin and her colleagues filed the first Roundup case in 2015, which since that time has been followed by well over one hundred thousand lawsuits throughout the U.S. She continues to litigate Roundup cases today, primarily in Missouri state courts.

Robin is on the executive committee of the JCCP in Los Angeles concerning the methane gas well blow in Porter Ranch which recently settled for $1.8 billion. Robin served on the PSC for BP Oil Spill litigation in the E.D. of Louisiana, where she was co-lead counsel on the Medical Benefits Class Settlement and was one of four committee members who tried the Phase 2 trial that focused on post-explosion liability for the spill. She has held other leadership roles, including the Volkswagen Defeat Device MDL, the PFOA contamination case in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., as well as other PFAS litigation, and the GM Ignition Switch MDL.

Robin continues to develop new cases and to work with others for the protection of human health and the environment.

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