Kaplan Martin LLP

Kaplan Martin LLP is an elite litigation boutique handling complex commercial disputes, investigations, and constitutional matters involving the most significant legal, institutional, and reputational consequences.

Founded by renowned litigators Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan and Timothy Martin, the firm combines Big Law expertise with the focus, tenacity, and agility of a boutique practice. Kaplan Martin attorneys offer decades of collective knowlege honed in private practice, in-house, in C-Suites, on boards, and in government and the public sector to litigate sophisticated disputes with the efficiency, creativity, and strategic discipline required to prevail at all stages of litigation.

The firm’s lawyers have led some of the most consequential disputes of the past several decades, including the landmark Supreme Court victory in United States v. Windsor, which helped advance marriage equality in the United States; the historic litigations protecting New York’s congestion pricing program; expansive multi-district commercial defenses of a leading, multinational beverage company; successful high-profile civil trials, including the defamation and sexual assault actions brought against President Donald Trump by E. Jean Carroll; and numerous complex commercial and governance disputes involving Fortune 50 companies, investors, and financial institutions.

Kaplan Martin frequently represents corporations, boards of directors, senior executives, public institutions, law firms, government officials, and individuals in matters involving intricate legal questions carrying far-reaching consequences. The firm is called upon to confront powerful adversaries and navigate bet-the-company litigation subject to intense public scrutiny, where strategy and meticulously constructed records are essential to achieving durable outcomes at trial and on appeal.

At the same time, Kaplan Martin’s attorneys often represent individual plaintiffs in meaningful, confidential employment discrimination, sexual assault, and estate law cases. No matter the case or client, Kaplan Martin provides personal, expert counsel that results in lasting solutions.

The firm’s attorneys have won numerous recognitions by leading legal and business publications, including “U.S. Elite Commercial Litigators” and Band 1 education lawyers by Legal 500, “Constitutional Law Litigator of the Year” by Benchmark Litigation, “Leading Litigators in America,” “Top Trial Lawyers,” and “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Lawdragon, and “Notable Women in Law” by Crain’s.