Rob Roberts worked in sales and marketing for the Detroit Pistons NBA basketball team in Michigan and went to law school because he saw it as a path to becoming a sports executive.
Now the 37-year-old father of two plays on a different court. Roberts is one of the newest associates to make partner at Ropes & Gray LLP where he focuses primarily on health care, life sciences and restructuring litigation.
Roberts became interested in litigation while at Harvard Law School, but it wasn’t until he worked with Jane Willis, a partner and mentor at the firm, that he found ...