Mark D. Robins
Partner

Plunkett Cooney

Licensed: 1977
Joined Firm: 1977
Partner Since: 1983

Buhl Building
535 Griswold St., Suite 2400
Detroit, MI 48226

TEL: (313) 983-4832
FAX: (313) 983-4350

mrobins@plunkettcooney.com

Mr. Robins is a partner and senior litigator in the firm’s Detroit office, where he practices exclusively in the area of workers’ compensation law. His clients include numerous insurance companies and commercial clients across southeast Michigan.

A graduate of Wayne State University School of Law, Mr. Robins is actively involved in a number of professional organizations, including the Workers’ Compensation Law Section of ALFA International, a consortium of 120 law firms.

Representative Client Work

• Defended municipalities, companies, employers, insurance companies and third party administrators in hundred of hearings and trials
• Defended insurance companies and self-insured employers in numerous major workers’ compensation claims, including claims involving coordination of benefits, psychiatric disability, orthopedic disabilities, cardio-pulmonary disability, etc.
• Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan, representing the State of Michigan and Funds Administration.
  

Professional Membership

• Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
• Wolverine Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan
• American Bar Association
• Michigan Self-Insurers’ Association
• American Trial Lawyers Association
• Defense Research Institute
• ALFA International (Workers’ Compensation Law Section)
  
  

Community Involvement

• Wayne State University School of Law Alumni Association
• Wayne State University Alumni Association
  

Fraternities

• Phi Beta Kappa
  

Publications and Lectures

• “Workers’ Compensation Law, A State-by-State Analysis/Michigan,” Seventh Edition 2006, Contributing Editor, American Law Firm Association (ALFA)
• American Law Firm Association – Workers’ Compensation Practice Group
  • Evidence Based Medicine (2006)
  • Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (2004)
  • Medicare & Workers’ Compensation (2004)
  • Medicare & Workers’ Compensation (2003)
  • Workers’ Compensation/FMLA/ADA (2002)
• IAIABC – Evidence Based Medicine (2006)
  

Speaking Engagements

• Jazzing Up Your Workers' Compensation Programs
  

Areas of Practice

General Litigation
Workers' Compensation

Honors & Awards
Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating-AV. AV is a registered certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies

Education
Wayne State University Law School, 1977, J.D.
Wayne State University, 1974, B.A.