Rob Frommer - Page 1
ContributorRobert Frommer serves as a staff attorney with the Institute for Justice. He joined the Institute in August 2008 and litigates cases to protect political speech, promote economic liberty, and secure individuals’ rights to private property. <br /> <br /> Robert was lead counsel in Kalish v. Milliken, a case challenging a Virginia law that forces schools to pay thousands of dollars and fill out dozens of hours of forms just to talk with their students. Robert also litigates on behalf of SpeechNow.org, a group formed to independently speak out about candidates but which first had to challenge laws that restrict how much anyone can give to the group. Robert also represents a small businessman in Texas in a civil-forfeiture proceeding that will both strengthen protections for innocent owners and end the perverse incentive structure under which law-enforcement agencies profit from what they seize and forfeit. Robert’s views have been published in a number of print and on-line newspapers and journals, including The Washington Times and PajamasMedia.com.<br /> <br /> Before joining IJ, Robert was an attorney with the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He is a former law clerk to Judge Morris Sheppard Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Robert received his law degree magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 2004, where he served as both a book review editor for the Michigan Law Review and president of the Federalist Society student chapter.