Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Product Liability & Toxic Tort Group.

Robb is a trial lawyer and serves as the firm’s Managing Partner. He also is a member of the firm's Executive Committee - He focuses on complex litigation related to tort and fraud claims involving the sale of consumer, industrial, and medical products and securities.

Robb has over 30 years of experience in the national and international defense of numerous mass torts involving prescription drugs, medical devices, pesticides, asbestos, tobacco, dietary supplements, machinery, blood products, specialty chemicals, motor vehicles and petroleum products. Robb has significant knowledge in particular of the pharmaceutical, medical device, tobacco, and specialty chemical industries, and serves as a trusted advisor to companies in those arenas in navigating the legal and regulatory challenges presented. His many significant matters include the defense of Merck & Co. Inc. in Vioxx and Vytorin litigation, the defense of an oil refiner in MTBE litigation, the defense of Ferro Corp. in multiple, alleged water contamination cases involving 1,4 dioxane, and multiple jury trials for Lorillard Tobacco Company. Robb was Co-Chair of the firm’s Product Liability & Toxic Tort Group from 1999 - 2023.

English.

New York University School of Law, J.D., 1989 Yale College, B.A., 1985 (magna cum laude).