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Law Practice

Feb. 19, 2014

New ABOTA president maintains national fame through obsessive preparation

As the 2014 president, Mark P. Robinson Jr. will turn his intense work ethic to the American Board of Trial Advocates' mission of safeguarding the civil jury system.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The night his son graduated from college, Steve W. Berman, the nationally prominent Seattle tort plaintiffs attorney, went to a celebratory dinner with his family. He got a call from Mark P. Robinson Jr., his co-lead counsel in the Toyota acceleration class action.


"'Mark, I'm at dinner with my family,'" Berman said, but Robinson just kept talking about the case. "He ...

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