Laurie Robinson

Laure Nicole Robinson is the assistant general counsel in the labor and employment group at CBS Broadcasting Inc. in New York City. Prior to joining CBS, Ms. Robinson worked at two New York City law firms, Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Epstein, Becker and Green, P.C., where she represented management in labor and employment matters. Prior to joining the law firms, Ms. Robinson worked as a legal intern in the labor management division of the National Football League in New York City. Interestingly, while at the NFL, Ms. Robinson wrote and published a legal comment in the Indiana Law Journal entitled Professional Athletes—Held to a Higher Standard and Above the Law: A Comment on High-Profile Criminal Defendants and the Need for States to Establish High-Profile Courts.

Ms. Robinson matriculated at North Carolina Central University and received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in 1994. Notably, she served as a campus leader in the coveted role of Miss North Carolina Central University, where she provided public service to the Durham, North Carolina community, served as a national ambassador to the university and the school’s 5,000 students, and was featured in Ebony Magazine. She attended Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, where she was the President of the Student Law Association, the Notes and Comments Editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies and received her Juris Doctorate in 1998.

Ms. Robinson is the author of several legal-related publications, which include the recently published article, Pre-Employment Personality Testing: Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, How Much Latitude Do Employers Have to Incorporate These Tests In the Hiring Practice? (American Bar Association, 2005). Her other publications include: Drafting An Effective Release, New York Law Journal (October 29, 2002); Retail Industry Picketing and Handbilling: Rights of Non-Employee Union Representatives and Striking and Off Duty Employees to Access to Shopping Malls, Parking Fields, Stores and Other Private Property, 17 Labor Lawyer (Summer 2001); Religious Discrimination: Multi-State Survey, ALI-ABA Course of Study (November 16, 2000); The Globalization of Female Child Prostitution, 4 Ind. J. Global Leg. Stud. 239 (1997). Ms. Robinson’s articles have been cited to by legal scholars, as well as the United Nations.

Ms. Robinson is the founder and CEO of Corporate Counsel Women of Color (“CCWC”), a non profit organization of nearly 1,200 women attorneys of color who work for Fortune 1000 and Forbes 2000 legal departments. CCWC is designed to promote diversity in the legal profession. Ms. Robinson has presented before the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and the South Asian Women Leaders Forum. In 2005, she received accolades for her achievements in promoting diversity, including being recognized by The Coca-Cola Company’s legal department and receiving the Women’s Venture Fund’s Highest Leaf Award and the Charting Your Own Course Spirit Award.