Robert C. Gottlieb

Robert Gottlieb has been practicing criminal law for nearly thirty years. He received a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from New York University Law School in 1975. He served as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan under Robert Morgenthau from 1975 through 1979 and in 1983 established his own law firm concentrating solely in state and federal criminal defense. Mr. Gottlieb has defended many individuals in highly publicized cases throughout the country and has represented countless individuals charged with serious criminal offenses including securities fraud, money laundering, murder and sex offenses.

Mr. Gottlieb ran for Suffolk County, New York district attorney in 1989. He has written countless articles on the subject of criminal law and is a frequent lecturer for the state and national bar associations. In 2008, Mr. Gottlieb was appointed to the New York State Bar Association's Task Force on Wrongful Convictions to investigate the causes of wrongful convictions and to recommend changes in the criminal justice system to prevent such convictions from occurring in the future. Mr. Gottlieb has also served as an adjunct professor in Trial Practice at Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Huntington, New York and has been on the faculty for the National Institute of Trial advocacy. Mr. Gottlieb is a member of the New York State and National Associations of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Federal Bar Council and the New York State Bar Association. He is a member of the bar of New York State and is admitted to practice in the federal courts of the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, United States Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

LECTURES AT CRIMINAL LAW SEMINARS

Suffolk Academy of Law - Spring 2000 - “Nuts & Bolts of Litigation, Pre-Trial Criminal Practice”

New York State Bar Association - Spring 2000 - “A Primer on Evidence for the Criminal Practitioner”

Suffolk Academy of Law - Spring 2001- “Nuts & Bolts Series, Criminal Practice,

Pre-Trial Skills”

Suffolk Academy of Law - Winter 2002 - “Trial Theory & Practice”

New York State Bar Association - Spring 2002 - “A Primer on Suppression Hearings”

Suffolk Academy of Law - Spring 2003 - “Pre-Trial Criminal Practice, Conduct of Pre-Trial Hearings”

New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers - Spring 2004 - Criminal Law Seminar - “Cross to Kill XV”

New York State Bar Association, “2005 Update on Evidence For the Criminal Practitioner,” Melville, LI, New York, Friday, November 4, 2005

MEMBERSHIPS AND POSITIONS HELD

New York State Bar Association's Task Force on Wrongful Convictions, Member

New York City Bar Association, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council

Federal Bar Council, Member

New York County Lawyers’ Association, Member

International Network of Boutique Law Firms, Member

New York State Bar Association, Member

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member

New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member

ARTICLES AUTHORED

New York State Bar Association, Criminal Justice Journal - Joint Defense Agreements Winter 2002, Vol. 10, No.1

New York Law Journal - April 5, 2004 - Sequestration of Jurors (Tyco Trial)

New York Law Journal - April 20, 2006 - Allowing Juror Queries Disturbing 'Innovation'