Angela Robinson has over 20 years of combined legal and engineering experience.  She provides legal counseling and staff training for private and non-profit clients in a variety of areas including business law, IP protection and portfolio development, and tax law.  She has trial experience in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia and Federal District Court.  She has represented clients before the IRS and the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals.  She also is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Prior to beginning her own practice, Ms. Robinson was an Associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., with an environmental, litigation and regulatory practice.  Before that she was an Associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP–one of the 10 larget firms in the U.S. at that time–with an intellectual property and litigation practice.  She has represented the City of Alexandria, the City of New Orleans, and other municipalities in environmental and municipal matters, and counseled private sector clients from Fortune 100 companies to minority-owned enterprises.

Ms. Robinson has also provided pro bono services for non-profit organizations including the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, Thurgood Marshall Academy Charter School and Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights.

Prior to obtaining her law degree, Ms. Robinson was an Environmental Consultant.  In that capacity, she developed expertise in environmental site assessment; industrial, medical and domestic waste treatment; ground water remediation; emergency response; storm water management; site plan permitting; lead-based paint and asbestos remediation; underground storage tank regulation; and an array of other environmental matters.  She worked extensively with the District of Columbia's Water and Sewer Authority's Industrial Pretreatment Division, the District of Columbia's Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, as well as with other municipalities and private industries throughout the country.  She has contributed to major development projects including the District’s MCI Center and the WMATA Green Line extension.

Ms. Robinson also worked as a Civil Engineer for Mobil Oil Corporation in New York where she managed over $5 million in commercial construction projects (in 1990 U.S. dollars), and for the Prince George's County, Maryland Watershed Protection Branch where she developed the County’s Flood Awareness Program and addressed local storm water management issues.

Through her educational and professional experiences Ms. Robinson has achieved not only technical and legal capabilities, but a talent for applying a thoughtful, client-oriented, bottom-line business approach to every project she handles.

Education

Ms. Robinson received her law degree from Howard University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2001), and her undergraduate degree from Howard University School of Engineering (B.S.C.E., cum laude, 1990).  Ms. Robinson was a member of the Howard Law Journal and an Editor and contributor of the Howard Engineer Magazine. 

During her undergraduate studies Ms. Robinson was a Summer Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology R.A. Parson Laboratory, where she assisted in the development of a computer ground water modeling program.  She was also a research assistant in the Howard University Department of Civil Engineering.

Bar Memberships

District of Columbia
Maryland
U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Professional Affiliations

District of Columbia Bar

Maryland State Bar Association

Select Honors and Awards

• D.C. Federation of Civic Associations Awardee (2009)
• Giles S. Rich Inn of Court for the Federal Circuit, Member (2002 to 2004)
• Howard Law Journal, Member (1999-2001)
• Sligo Branview Community Association, Excellence Award for Neighborhood Volunteerism (1999)
• Prince George’s County Watershed Protection Branch, Appreciation Award (1991)
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society (1988-1990)

Representative Cases

Premium Transit Services, Inc. v. Maryland Transit Authority, MSBCA Docket No. 2530 (Oct. 2, 2007).