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David A. Robinson
David Robinson, an attorney practicing in the Detroit, Michigan
area, specializes in police misconduct litigation. He also
litigates personal injury claims which include medical negligence,
auto negligence, slip and fall, and dog bite cases.
During his eighteen year career as an attorney, Robinson has handled
hundreds of police misconduct matters involving wrongful arrests
and wrongful deaths at the hands of police officers. He has
also obtained multiple million dollar-plus settlements and verdicts
in non-lethal police chase, accident, and shooting cases. Furthermore,
Robinson has successfully litigated several cases involving deaths
of pretrial detainees in Detroit jails.
In the past, Robinson worked for the Detroit Police Department (DPD),
both as an officer and as an attorney. During his time with
the DPD, he defended officers in civil litigation matters and taught
the legal section of recruit training at the Detroit Metropolitan
Police Academy. He also held a teaching position with the Wayne
State University Criminal Justice Department.
Currently, Robinson sits on the executive board of the Legal Redress
Committee for the NAACP. Additionally, he is a member
of the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA) and the National
Lawyers Guild (NLG). Previously, he served on the MTLA and
NLG executive boards. He has also lectured on police misconduct
at seminars sponsored by Lorman Education Services, Professional
Education Systems Institute, MTLA, NLG, and NPAP.
Robinson graduated
from Wayne State University in 1979. In 1985,
he received his Juris Doctorate from Detroit College of Law in 1985.
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