Robin Gushman represents public and private companies in antitrust litigation, class action, and complex commercial disputes.

Robin crafts persuasive and effective strategies to guide clients through a wide range of claims brought by plaintiffs and governments alike, including:

  • Monopolization, conspiracy, and unfair competition claims
  • Merger-related claims
  • California state claims, including under the California Unfair Competition Law
  • Consumer class actions

A seasoned trial lawyer, Robin conducts witness examinations, prepares experts and fact witnesses for testimony, takes and defends depositions, and leads the drafting of dispositive motions. She regularly represents clients at motion hearings and manages all aspects of fact and expert discovery.

She also helps corporate clients navigate Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust investigations. Robin advises clients in bet-the-company work across numerous industries, including technology; entertainment, sports, and media; automotive; and aerospace.

Robin maintains a robust pro bono practice, including representing a US military veteran in immigration proceedings, for whom she secured a pardon of a criminal conviction from the governor of California. She also represents clients in asylum cases.

Prior to joining Latham, Robin served as a law clerk to Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Before law school, she was a paralegal specialist in the Securities and Commodities Task Force of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she managed the insider trading prosecution of hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

Robin’s experience includes representing:

  • Live Nation and Ticketmaster in:
    • An antitrust action brought by the DOJ and 40 state attorneys general alleging monopolization and other purported anticompetitive conduct in the live entertainment industry
    • Multiple federal putative class action lawsuits alleging supracompetitive ticketing fees resulting from purported anticompetitive conduct
    • Multiple federal putative class action lawsuits regarding ticket refund policies for events postponed or canceled due to COVID-19; won motions to compel arbitration in all lawsuits
  • Apple in a putative class action related to the design and implementation of Apple’s innovative Apple Pay and Apple Wallet features
  • American Airlines in successfully defeating claims at a federal trial by a group of private plaintiffs that sought to unwind American Airlines and US Airways’ merger, garnering recognition as an American Lawyer Litigator of the Week runner-up
  • Reyes Holdings and Harbor Distributing in obtaining dismissal of all antitrust claims brought in California state court by a craft brewer
  • Edeniq, a private ethanol technology company, in securing summary judgment and an award of attorneys’ fees and costs relating to defense of breach-of-contract and fraud claims brought in California state court by a public corporation after a failed merger
  • JELD-WEN in securing a plaintiff’s verdict a trade secret misappropriation case following a two-week federal court trial, in which the jury found that the defendant stole eight distinct trade secrets owned and used by JELD-WEN and awarded US$1.2 million in damages
  • Oracle in a high-profile trial in which Hewlett-Packard alleged that Oracle’s actions to halt software development for the Intel Itanium microprocessor violated contract and unfair competition laws

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 2014
  • BA, Williams College, 2009

Languages Spoken

  • English