About
Robin Wagner
After a 15-year career in higher education administration, I returned to law school, attending DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. Inspired by the legal fights for LGBTQIA+ rights, I wanted to learn civil rights law to help others. I wake up each day ready to fight for my clients and help vindicate their rights.
If you believe that your rights have been violated, I would be honored to review your concerns. Please contact me.
Legal Background
My legal career began with a clerkship for Hon. Michael Dolinger, ret. U.S. Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York, followed by a clerkship for Hon. Judith E. Levy, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan. I then worked as an attorney for Lakeshore Legal Aid before joining Michigan’s leading employment discrimination and civil rights firm, Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers.
Experience in Civil Rights and Employment Law
After winning many milestone-making legal cases and spending almost a decade at the firm, rising from Law Associate to Equity Partner, I opened my own law practice, Robin Law, in 2026. My motivation and inspiration come from fighting for my clients’ rights.
Professional Leadership and Advocacy
I care deeply about my clients and also about the larger professional community of civil rights attorneys and the courts: I hold leadership positions in and actively contribute to multiple organizations, including the Eastern District of Michigan Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association.
Key Results for Clients
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Over $500,000 settlement in a sex, race, and disability discrimination case on behalf of a high-level female employee in the auto industry.
$350,000 settlement for an African American executive who suffered racial bias and hostility from her supervisor.
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$75,000 to an individual with a mental health disability whose apartment application was rejected.
$325,000 settlement from an apartment complex that evicted individuals who were participating in a substance use disorder treatment program.
$100,000 and multi-year compliance testing against a large apartment complex that steered renters below the age of 35 away from their building.
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A $7.5 million settlement against the Michigan State Police on behalf of victims in two devastating car crashes resulting from high-speed pursuits through residential neighborhoods of Flint.
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Justice for 15 different clients in consumer arbitration actions involving unjust home sale-lease-back schemes and violations of federal laws designed to protect banking customers from fraud schemes.
Leadership
Robin is currently an elected officer of the Eastern District of Michigan Bar Association and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of DePaul University College of Law, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2014.
She has also served as the chair of the Civil Rights Section of the Federal Bar Association and on the Labor and Employment Law Council of the Michigan Bar Association.
Robin contributes to the professional community by regularly contributing articles of legal journals on topics related to LGBTQIA+ rights, housing discrimination, and technical legal questions important to plaintiff’s attorneys.
She also serves her community through sitting on the Board of the Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation.
DePaul College of Law, J.D. - Summa Cum Laude, Order of the Coif
Harvard University, Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Princeton University, B.A., East Asian Studies - Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Education
Bar Admissions
Michigan State Bar
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s Influential Women of Law 2024
Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers 2024 and 2025
Michigan Lawyers Weekly Rising Star Award 2019