Robert
K. Tanenbaum is a nationally known lawyer and legal expert who
has worked as both a successful prosecutor and a high-profile defense attorney.
As assistant district attorney in New York County in the 1970s, he ran the Homicide Bureau, served as chief of the Criminal Courts Bureau and was in charge of the legal staff training program. In the late 1970s, Mr. Tanenbaum served as deputy chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which investigated the murders of both President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King.
Among his many professional accomplishments, he was a special prosecution consultant on the Hillside Strangler case, defended Delaware college student Amy Grossberg in the sensationalized case involving the death of her newborn baby, and represented eight black plaintiffs in a major racial profiling case. Mr. Tanenbaum also served two terms as mayor of Beverly Hills and taught Advanced Criminal Procedure at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley for four years. The author of 18 novels and two non-fiction books, his latest novel, Counterplay, was published in August.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Mr. Tanenbaum attended UC Berkeley on a basketball scholarship and received his law degree from Boalt Hall.
