Robert Rotstein

Robert Henry Rotstein (born June 28, 1951, in Glendale, California) is an American attorney and novelist currently based in Los Angeles, California. He has published four novels so far, including Corrupt Practices, Reckless Disregard, The Bomb Maker's Son and We, The Jury. He is also currently a partner at the law firm of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, focusing on entertainment law, intellectual property law and commercial litigation.

Background Rotstein grew up in Culver City, California, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1973, summa cum laude.

Legal career Upon graduation from law school, Rotstein served as a judicial law clerk to now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, then Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Rotstein also authored a law review article in the Chicago Kent Law Review entitled "Beyond Mataphor: Copyright Infringement and the Fiction of the Work," 68 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 725 (1992) that explores the relationship between literary theory and copyright law, and has also taught as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California, teaching Copyright Law.

The first novel in the series, Corrupt Practices (2013), introduces Parker Stern as an attorney hired by an affluent former client named Rich Baxter to defend him in a lawsuit filed by a powerful Los Angeles church alleging that Baxter has embezzled millions from them. Stern reluctantly takes the case because he has not set foot in a courtroom since his mentor, Harmon Cherry, committed suicide. In Poniard's popular online game "Abduction," a movie mogul is charged with murdering and kidnapping a beautiful movie actress who disappeared in the 1980s; the mogul proceeds to sue Poniard for libel. When another "Holzner bomb" explodes and other violent terrorist acts begin to escalate with increasing frequency, Stern slowly begins to undercover the truth behind Holzner and realities involving his family and his own past. The book received positive reviews from Lee Child, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.

Rotstein is also a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the International Thriller Writers.