Robin Greenwald
Robin Greenwald is a FarmSTAND board member and partner at Weitz & Luxenberg, managing the firm’s Environmental Torts and Consumer Class Action Unit. She has litigated environmental cases for the entirety of her 40-year law practice. She has served in lead counsel capacities as a federal environmental civil enforcement attorney and criminal prosecutor, and since entering private practice she has held many lead and plaintiffs’ steering committee positions.
Robin started her career with the Department of Justice for 16 years, first as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and then as Assistant Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section, followed by appointment as General Counsel for the Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior.
After 18 years in public service, Robin became the Executive Director of Waterkeeper Alliance, a not-for-profit water protection organization with hundreds of member programs around the world. Subsequently, she was a Clinical Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School.
Robin joined Weitz & Luxenberg in 2005. She has been co-lead counsel in the Roundup MDL in San Francisco for 6 years and has also litigated many of her Roundup cases in Missouri state courts. She is also co-lead counsel in the Camp Lejeune water litigation in the Eastern District of North Carolina, on behalf of Marines, their families, and civilian workers seeking compensation for injuries from the water at Camp Lejeune. She also was on the Executive Committee of the recently settled JCCP in Los Angeles concerning the methane gas well blow in Porter Ranch, a community in Los Angeles County. In addition, she has served leadership roles in several other environmental and non-environmental consolidated cases, including the BP Oil Spill Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in New Orleans, the Volkswagen Defeat Device Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in San Francisco, and co-lead of the MDL against the oil industry for contaminating the nation’s groundwater with a gasoline additive MTBE.