Robin Wagner Law, PLLC
Passionate and Innovative Advocate For Your Rights
Robin Wagner
Robin Wagner is a passionate attorney and counselor who represents individuals who have experienced injustice and unfair treatment in employment, housing, incarceration, and other areas of civil rights and constitutional law.
As a lawyer, she serves as both counselor and advocate for people who face workplace or housing discrimination, or have been harmed or injured by governmental officials. She has secured justice and monetary relief for her clients through negotiation, mediation, litigation, and trial.
As a former partner at Michigan’s leading civil rights firm, Robin has learned that true justice sometimes requires more than monetary compensation. She has developed innovative strategies to create lasting change. These approaches reflect her ongoing commitment to Restorative Justice.
Photos of Robin by Mark Gebert
Areas of Practice
Robin focuses her legal practice on employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and civil rights cases, winning numerous, substantive settlements for her clients. She has also successfully litigated a number of consumer rights cases, supporting the victims of predatory housing practices and victims of financial fraud.
Robin Law offers the following legal expertise in areas concerning:
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Whether you live to work or you work to live, being the victim of workplace discrimination is devastating. It is unlawful here in Michigan to be treated unfairly because of your race, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital/parental status, weight or height. And other laws prohibit your employer from denying you the right to take medical leave for yourself or to care for a family member or fire you for “blowing the whistle” on your employer or not get paid for your overtime.
Robin has deep experience in employment law and puts in the hard work to unmask the lies employers use to hide their violations.
Robin won a $350,000 settlement for an African American executive who suffered racial bias and hostility from her supervisor.
Robin secured a $500,000 settlement in a sex, race, and disability discrimination case on behalf of a high-level female employee in the auto industry.
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Housing discrimination can come in a variety of forms. Robin has extensive experience bringing lawsuits to vindicate her clients’ Fair Housing rights and often partners with the Fair Housing enforcement agencies across the state to get landlords and home owners associations to do the right and lawful thing.
Robin has won cases resulting in:
$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.
$75,000 to an individual with a mental health disability whose apartment application was rejected.
Fair and equitable resolutions for ninevictims of a sale-and-leaseback scheme that cost them their homes.
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The U.S. Constitution and Michigan State Constitution offer guarantees of many rights, including the right to peacefully protest, assemble peacefully, and to be treated fairly. The violation of these rights can feel uncomfortable and unsettling, requiring understanding of the law and the individual circumstance of the person. It takes a fierce advocate to prevail when the government tramples your rights.
Robin has prevailed for clients who were the victims of police misconduct and for incarcerated individuals in Civil Rights cases.
She played a key role on the team that won 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. Read more here.
She served as Lead Counsel in a high-profile case against the State of Michigan after administrators at the Hawthorn Center, a State-run pediatric psychiatric hospital, traumatized patients and employees in a realistic “active shooter” drill. The suit responded to the trauma and resulting post-traumatic stress disorder that resulted in many of the Hawthorn employees calling their loved ones and saying goodbye, believing they were under attack. The State of Michigan agreed to pay $13 Million in compensation to patients and employees. Read more here.
If your issue may fall into one of these categories, please contact Robin for more information and consulting.