Robyn Lessans

Associate

Robyn Lessans provides valuable services to help our litigators handle clients' toughest legal concerns. Robyn's team relies on her to research and draft memoranda and to strategize about the best ways to achieve the clients' interests. Her ability to see the bigger picture, combined with her attention to detail, makes her a reliable and essential member of any litigation team.

Robyn's years of clerking with jurists at both the appellate and trial court levels have given her a boots-on-the-ground perspective, with an insight into what courts and jurists care about most. This experience allows Robyn to see potential pitfalls, challenges, or opportunities when collaborating with her team to maximize her clients' chances of success.

Bringing her past experience as a middle school teacher to this position, Robyn has mastered the art of conflict management, an essential tool in a field that can often involve tense and high-stakes disputes. Relatedly, she is also able to synthesize complex legal arguments and deliver them in a commonsense manner, to the benefit of both her teammates and her clients.

Robyn's ability to think critically allows her to ask the right questions and see the central issues in a complex matter. An issue spotter at heart, Robyn is highly skilled in dissecting legal arguments and methodically responding to opposing arguments.

Experience

Representative Matters

  • Serves on a team that represents a transmission company in its contested application to obtain regulatory approval for the construction of transmission lines in Maryland
  • Serves on a team that represents a company in a class action personal injury matter
  • Provided legal analysis of a regulatory program to assist team members in counseling a client in an environmental clean-up matter
  • Assisted in drafting litigation documents to defend a client in an action for damages

Credentials
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Education

  • J.D. summa cum laude University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law 2022
    • Executive notes and comments editor, University of Maryland Law Review
    • Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution Team
  • B.A. Philosophy with honors Wake Forest University 2015
    • Member, Wake Forest University Mock Trial Team, 2011 – 2013
    • President, Wake Forest Chapter of Take the Fight to Cancer, Inc., 2014 – 2015

Bar Admissions

  • Maryland

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court of Maryland
  • Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Clerk Experience

  • The Honorable Justice Jonathan Biran Supreme Court of Maryland
  • The Honorable Judge Brendan Hurson U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland