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Practice Areas: Robert LoBue, Patterson Belknap's Managing Partner, has been a litigator with the firm for more than 25 years. His practice includes both a first-seat role in many of the firm's most significant complex business disputes as well as his long-time focus on intellectual property and First Amendment litigation and counseling. His clients include some of the world’s leading media and information services organizations. Mr LoBue is co-author of the Media Law Resource Center's 50-State Survey of Media Privacy and Related Law and of articles on media issues and federal procedure. He has also served as the firm's General Counsel and Chair of its Professional Responsibility Committee, and has served on bar association ethics committees. He is the recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Award conferred by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for his pro bono service in a death penalty case, and has filed amicus briefs in the US Supreme Court on behalf of retired federal judges and human rights organizations in several landmark cases relating to the 'War of Terror'. He has also filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Bar Association in the US Supreme Court in a case testing the limits of the Alien Tort Statute.

Career: Prior to joining Patterson Belknap, Mr LoBue served as law clerk to the Hon David N Edelstein, US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Personal: University of Pennsylvania Law School (JD 1978), Reeve Award (trusts); Burkan Award (copyright); Order of the Coif; articles editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review; Brown University (AB 1975), Honors in English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa.