Background
Porte Robb, Anita was born on December 30, 1958 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Porte Robb, Anita was born on December 30, 1958 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
University of Missouri-Kansas City (Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, 1979). University of Michigan (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1982).
Worked at Robb & Robb Limited liability company (Kansas City, Missouri) specializing in Plaintiffs" Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Trials, with Emphasis on Hazardous Products Liability (Aviation, Motor Vehicle) and Medical Malpractice. Admitted to the bar, 1982, Missouri. Phi Kappa Phi; Pi Sigma Alpha.
Note Editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 1981-1982.
Member, Board of Editors, Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy Newsletter, 1984. Author: "Missouri"s Medical Malpractice Litigation: Handbook, Forms and Jury Instructions," University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 1990.
"Damage Caps Appear To Be On the Way Out", Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy Newsletter, December 1991. "Government Regulation of In Vitro Fertilization, Recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid and Cloning Biotechnologies: Where Powers End and Rights Begin," 3 Nova Law Journal 65, 1979.
"Locality Rule Fades as a Standard (Participant I), Move to National Standard of Care (Participant II)," Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy Newsletter, December, 1984-January, 1985.
"Pursuing Medical Malpractice Claims Against the United States Government," Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy Newsletter, October-November, 1985. Contributing Author: "State Rules of Evidence," Research Project of the Trial Evidence Committee, American Bar Association Section of Litigation, 1984-1985. Faculty Member, Missouri Judicial College.
Subject: Medical Malpractice in Missouri.
Program Chairperson, Medical Malpractice Seminar Sponsored by University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 1986. Chairperson of Alumni Committee for University Scholars, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1984-1985.
Law Clerk to Honorary William East. Turnage, Chief Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, 1982-1983. Member, Board of Editors (for Medical Malpractice), Missouri Lawyer"s Weekly.
Member: Kansas City Metropolitan (Member, Medicolegal Hospital Committee, 1982) and American (Member, Sections on: Member, Trial Evidence Committee, Litigation, 1983.
Member, Committee on Law and Medicine, Tort and Insurance Practice, 1984) Bar Associations. The Missouri Bar; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, Section on Professional Liability). Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (Member, Board of Governors).
American Society of Law and Medicine.
Robb & Robb was founded in 1984 by Gary C. Robb and Anita Porte Robb, both Cum Laude graduates of the University of Michigan School of Law. The firm is devoted entirely to the representation of injured persons and their families in serious injury and wrongful death cases.
Member, Board of Editors, Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy Newsletter, 1984.