Robert P. Marcovitch
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Phone: 404.815.7171
Fax: 404.875.8758
75 Fourteenth Street
Suite 2500
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Bob Marcovitch opened his law office in Midtown Atlanta in 2006. He concentrates his practice on state and federal civil, and federal criminal appellate litigation, including motions practice in trial courts. With more than 20 years as a member of the bar, Bob has extensive experience as an appellate litigator, including six years in the 1990s as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Appellate Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta, several years in the late 1990's at a large law, and for the past few years as a solo practitioner. He has also participated in the briefing and editing of major trial court motions in civil matters - including class certification and summary judgment motions - and in criminal proceedings, including motions for new trial and to suppress evidence.
Bob has an unusual breadth of legal experiences in terms of the variety of positions he has held and the subject matters of the litigations that he has handled. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil matters, he has worked as a prosecutor and as a criminal defense attorney, and he spent over four years as an in-house litigator. He has engaged in civil litigation involving real estate matters, business disputes, consumer class actions, torts, and government enforcement proceedings. Bob has also worked in virtually every subject matter area covered by the United States criminal code, including government corruption, bank robbery, bank, wire, and mail fraud, murder-for-hire, RICO, export controls, foreign corrupt practices, drugs, and money laundering.
Bob brings his depth of experience along with his acute ability to spot issues and synthesize large volumes of record materials to craft finely-tuned, concise, and persuasive arguments, both orally and in writing, in every case that he handles, whether in trial courts or in courts of appeal.
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
Georgia, 1992Massachusetts (inactive), 1987
Professional & Bar Association Memberships
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2007
Lawyer’s Club of Atlanta, 2006
American Bar Association, 2006
Representative Clients
Individuals and businesses charged with or under investigation for federal criminal offenses.
AT&T Mobility LLC
Emory University
Charter Communications, Inc.
Jocks & Jills Restaurants, LLC
Recent Work
Since starting his practice in 2006, Bob has worked on a wide variety of civil and criminal matters, including
- an appeal of an adverse jury verdict in the total amount of over $2 million on behalf of a sports bar and its principal owner in which the Eleventh Circuit reversed the judgment and remanded for a new trial;
- an appeal in a catastrophic personal injury case in which the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed an adverse summary judgment ruling;
- two appeals, one pending and one already successful, relating to student disciplinary proceedings on behalf of a major educational institution;
- a new trial motion based on Brady v. Maryland in which the court ordered a new trial;
- a pending appeal in a criminal drug diversion matter;
- an administrative Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower proceeding; and
- ongoing motions work in an alleged prescription drug importation case.
Featured Pro Bono Activities
Amicus Brief Writing for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Performed pro bono appellate work for the NACDL, in which capacity he wrote (1) an amicus curiae brief (which can be found at 1999 WL 728350) in support of the petitioner in Carmell v. Texas, 529 U.S. 513 (2000), a case in which the United States Supreme Court reversed the petitioner’s conviction on ex post facto grounds; and (2) an amicus curiae brief (which can be found at 2005 WL 3783393) on behalf of an appellant doctor, whose drug-related conviction for alleged over-prescription of pain medication was reversed by the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Hurwitz, 459 F.3d 463 (4th Cir. 2006).
Received Letter of Commendation from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, August 2000, for work on amicus brief filed in the United States Supreme Court in Carmell v. Texas.
Non-Legal Activities
Member, Board of Trustees, The Epstein School, 2006 – present;
Incoming Chair, Committee on Trustees, The Epstein School, 2008;
Member, Board of Directors, Atlanta Youth Soccer Association, 2002 – 2005;
Member, Executive Committee, Appellate Practice Section of the Georgia State Bar, 2000;
Participant, Arnovitz Leadership Institute, Ahavath Achim Synagogue, 2000 – 2001;
Baseball Coach, Druid Hills Youth Sports, 2006 – 2008.