ROBERT W. GORDON, Esq.

Robert has over 30 years of public speaking/presenting experience across a variety of fields. He spent several years as a teacher in the New York public school system and thereafter became a licensed attorney. As an attorney he spent 12 years as a municipal defense litigation attorney for the City of New York with three of those years as a full-time trial attorney. He’s also worked for several years as a defense attorney in the private sector with a large national firm and taught as a law professor in South Korea. He’s prepared over 36 cases for trial with seven trials going all the way to verdict. The highest jury verdict he was involved in at trial was 28 million dollars. He’s taken and or defended over 1,500 depositions and has appeared for oral arguments at both the First and Second Appellate Divisions of New York City in addition to multiple oral arguments held at the trial court level. He’s served as a judge for high school and college national and international mock trial competitions, and regularly coaches high school debate competitors. He coaches clients on academic research papers, written debate, discovery demands and responses for litigation, deposition preparation, trial preparation including opening statements and closing arguments, social media video presentations such as on YouTube, and PowerPoint presentations. He’s lived and worked in Russia, South Korea, and is a frequent traveler to Japan with some familiarity with the languages and culture of all of those countries.

Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Morehouse College, having graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law having taken classes there from Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel (Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy), Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Appellate Advocacy), and Derrick Bell (Constitutional Law).

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