Speaker Profile

Robert Forbes
Assistant General Counsel / Washington Redskins

Robert Forbes is the Assistant General Counsel of the Washington Redskins.  Prior to joining the Redskins, he was an associate in the Litigation Department of Proskauer Rose LLP from 2007 - 2012.  At Proskauer, Robert was a member of the firm’s Sports Law, False Advertising & Trademark, and Privacy & Data Security practice groups.  Robert is the co-author of the Privacy and Commercial Communications chapter of Proskauer on Privacy, a leading privacy law treatise published by the Practicing Law Institute.  Robert received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal.