Roberta Kaplan
{{short description|American lawyer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Roberta Kaplan
|image = File:Robbie Kaplan (cropped).jpg
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}}
|birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
|death_date =
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|education = Harvard University (BA)
Columbia University (JD)
|known_for = United States v. Windsor
Sines v. Kessler
E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
|spouse = {{marriage|Rachel Lavine|2005}}
|children = 1
}}
Roberta Ann Kaplan (born 1966), also known as Robbie Kaplan,{{cite news |last1=Heller |first1=Karen |title=Attorney Roberta Kaplan is about to make Trump's life extremely difficult |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/roberta-kaplan-lawyer-attorney-trump/2021/01/17/ae8890f2-50f8-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html |access-date=11 May 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 18, 2021 |quote=Kaplan, known to all as Robbie}} is an American lawyer focusing on commercial litigation and public interest matters. Kaplan successfully argued before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of LGBT rights activist Edith Windsor, in United States v. Windsor, a landmark decision that invalidated a section of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and required the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages. She was a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison before starting her own firm in 2017. In 2018, she co-founded the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/metoo-revolution-times-up-roberta-kaplan|title=#MeToo a revolution that can't be stopped, says Time's Up co-founder|last=Walters|first=Joanna|date=October 21, 2018|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=October 21, 2018}}
Early life and education
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Roberta Kaplan grew up in a Jewish household.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jwi.org/articles/women-to-watch/roberta-kaplan|title=Roberta Kaplan|last=Josephs|first=Susan|date=January 28, 2016|website=Jewish Women International|language=en|access-date=February 26, 2021}}{{Cite news|first=Jackie |last=Hajdenberg |author-link= |title= HBO to air new documentary on team that sued Charlottesville rally organizers and won - 'No Accident' follows Jewish attorneys Roberta Kaplan and Karen Dunn, who filed lawsuit against 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations behind deadly 2017 rally |newspaper=Times of Israel|date=October 7, 2023 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/hbo-to-air-new-documentary-on-team-that-sued-charlottesville-rally-organizers-and-won/ |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio, in 1984. LGBT scholar and activist Aaron Belkin was Kaplan's high school friend and prom date. She earned a B.A. in Russian history and literature from Harvard University in 1988. While in college she spent a semester abroad in Moscow and "discovered a passion for political activism when she became active in the movement to free Soviet Jewry". She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1991.{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Conor W.K. |title=Roberta A. Kaplan to Speak at Harvard Law School Class Day |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/4/1/class-day-kaplan/ |access-date=May 10, 2019 |publisher=The Harvard Crimson |date=April 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510173219/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/4/1/class-day-kaplan/ |archive-date=May 10, 2019}}
Career
Kaplan served as a law clerk for Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. While clerking for Judith Kaye, of the New York Court of Appeals, she assisted Kaye with a number of academic articles. Kaplan's scholarly articles include "Proof versus Prejudice" (2013).{{cite journal|url=http://socialchangenyu.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/37-1-kaplan.pdf |title=Proof vs. Prejudice |volume=37 |journal=NYU Review of Law & Social Change |access-date=August 16, 2014}}
Kaplan joined the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in 1992 and made partner in 1999.{{Cite web|url=https://www.robbiekaplan.com/about.html|title="Robbie Kaplan"|last=Kaplan|first=Robbie Firm|website=Robbiekaplan.com|access-date=January 28, 2024|language=en-US}}
{{Cite web|url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/commencement-roberta-kaplan|title="If You Believe That It Is Possible to Break, Believe That It Is Possible to Repair"|last=Pasquini|first=Nina|date=May 29, 2019|website=Harvard Magazine|language=en|access-date=October 30, 2019}} She has served on the board and as chair of the board of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, which created the Roberta Kaplan Legal Center to provide free legal services.{{cite journal|last=Hoffman |first=Allison |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/127922/gay-marriages-legal-crusader |title=Gay Marriage's Legal Crusader |journal=Tablet Magazine |date=March 24, 2013 |access-date=August 16, 2014}}
In July 2017 Kaplan left Paul Weiss to start her own practice Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, a law firm dedicated to commercial litigation and public interest matters.{{Cite news|url=http://www.litigationdaily.com/id=1202792487159?mcode=1202616040436&curindex=0&slreturn=20170607183324|title=Roberta Kaplan, Champion of DOMA Fight, Leaves Paul Weiss to Start New Firm|work=Litigation Daily|access-date=July 7, 2017|language=en-US}} She departed her firm in June 2024.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/business/roberta-robbie-kaplan.html |title=Prominent Lawyer Roberta Kaplan Departs Firm After Clash With Colleagues |date=June 26, 2024 |last1=Baker |first1=Katie |last2=Enrich |first2=David |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 26, 2024}}
= ''United States v. Windsor'' =
{{Main|United States v. Windsor}}
In 2009, Kaplan agreed to represent Edith Windsor pro bono. Windsor's wife, Thea Spyer, had died two years after they wed in Canada, leaving Windsor her sole heir.{{cite magazine|last=Gray |first=Eliza |url=https://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/runner-up-edith-windsor-the-unlikely-activist/ |title=Runner-Up: Edith Windsor The Unlikely Activist |magazine=Time |date=December 11, 2013 |access-date=July 18, 2014}} Because their marriage was not recognized under existing U. S. federal law, Windsor received an estate tax bill of $363,053.{{cite magazine|last=Levy |first=Ariel |url=https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/30/130930fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all |title=Ariel Levy: How Edith Windsor Won a Landmark Case for Gay Marriage |magazine=The New Yorker |date=September 22, 2013 |access-date=July 18, 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Jim|first1=Dwyer|title=She Waited 40 Years to Marry, Then When Her Wife Died, the Tax Bill Came|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/nyregion/woman-says-same-sex-marriage-bias-cost-her-over-500000.html|access-date=October 21, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=June 7, 2012}} Windsor went to gay rights advocates seeking redress, but could find no one to take her case. She was referred to Kaplan, who later recalled, "When I heard her story, it took me about five seconds, maybe less, to agree to represent her."Applebome, Peter (December 10, 2012). "Reveling in Her Supreme Court Moment". The New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2014. Kaplan had been co-counsel on the unsuccessful bid for marriage equality in New York state in 2006.{{cite news|last1=Hartocollis|first1=Anemona|title=New York Judges Reject Any Right to Gay Marriage|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/nyregion/07marriage.html|access-date=October 21, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=July 7, 2006}}
On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5–4 decision declaring Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional.{{cite news|last1=Liptak|first1=Adam|title=Supreme Court Bolsters Gay Marriage With Two Major Rulings|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gay-marriage.html|access-date=October 21, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=June 26, 2013}} Subsequent to Windsor, the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) struck down all remaining state and federal laws against same-sex marriage across the United States. Kaplan wrote about United States v. Windsor in the book Then Comes Marriage.{{cite book|last1=Kaplan|first1=Roberta A., with Lisa Dickey|title=Then Comes Marriage: United States V. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA|date=2015|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York|isbn=9780393248678}}
=''Sines v. Kessler''=
{{Main|Sines v. Kessler}}
In 2017, Kaplan and co-counsel Karen Dunn filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of students, clergy members and local residents against 15 individual defendants and associated groups for damages following alleged injuries sustained at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.{{cite news |last1=Feuer |first1=Alan |title=Planners of Deadly Charlottesville Rally Are Tested in Court |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/us/charlottesville-lawsuit-far-right-heather-heyer.html |access-date=23 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=February 12, 2018}} The lawsuit is based on the Ku Klux Klan Act and according to The New York Times, the defendants are "an array of neo-Nazis, white identitarians and old-line pro-Confederates."
=Time's Up=
{{Main|Time's Up Legal Defense Fund}}
In 2018, Kaplan co-founded the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund with Tina Tchen. The fund has raised more than $24 million to provide legal defense for sexual violence victims, especially those who experienced misconduct in the workplace and led 780 attorneys and 50 cases under way.{{Cite web|url=https://fortune.com/2019/05/16/civil-rights-icons-roberta-kaplan-and-tina-tchen-launch-a-new-inclusion-advisory/|title=Roberta Kaplan and Tina Tchen Launch a New Inclusion Advisory|website=Fortune|language=en|access-date=October 30, 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/metoo-revolution-times-up-roberta-kaplan|title=#MeToo a revolution that can't be stopped, says Time's Up co-founder|last=Walters|first=Joanna|date=October 21, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 30, 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} In 2019, Kaplan and Tchen later co-founded HABIT, an anti-sexual harassment advisory.
On August 9, 2021, Kaplan resigned from her role as chairwoman of Time's Up, after she was named in the report released on August 3, 2021, by New York Attorney General Letitia James that followed the investigation of sexual harassment allegations against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,{{cite news |last1=Kantor |first1=Jodi |last2=Gold |first2=Michael |title=Roberta Kaplan, Who Aided Cuomo, Resigns from Time's Up |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/nyregion/roberta-kaplan-times-up-cuomo.html |access-date=9 August 2021 |work=The New York Times|date=August 9, 2021 }}{{cite news |title=Time's Up leader Roberta Kaplan resigns after criticism about Cuomo ties |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-times-up-roberta-kaplan-andrew-cuomo-20210809-4gbuklv4ofey3iyxzx4zpqrusq-story.html |access-date=9 August 2021 |work=Chicago Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=August 9, 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Katersky |first1=Aaron |last2=Thorbecke |first2=Catherine |title=Roberta Kaplan, a Time's Up leader, resigns after backlash over advising Cuomo |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/times-leader-resigns-reports-advised-cuomo/story?id=79363544 |access-date=9 August 2021 |work=ABC News}} and after an open letter from a group of former Time's Up staffers and clients to the board of Time's Up was published.{{cite news |last1=Wong |first1=Wilson |last2=Dasrath |first2=Diane |title=Time's Up leader Roberta Kaplan resigns after criticism for reportedly aiding Cuomo on harassment allegations |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/time-s-leader-roberta-kaplan-resigns-after-criticism-reportedly-aiding-n1276337 |access-date=9 August 2021 |work=NBC News}}{{cite magazine | last1=Moreau | first1=Jordan | last2=Wagmeister | first2=Elizabeth |title=Time's Up Exec Roberta Kaplan Resigns After Involvement in Cuomo Investigation and Open Letter From Ex-Staffers |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/roberta-kaplan-times-up-resign-cuomo-1235037392/ |access-date=9 August 2021 |magazine=Variety | date=August 9, 2021 | publisher=Penske Media Corporation | issn=0042-2738}} The report alleged Kaplan was involved in an effort to discredit a woman who had accused Cuomo of sexual harassment.
= E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuits =
{{Main|Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations#E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996)|E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald J. Trump}}
Kaplan represents writer E. Jean Carroll, who filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump on November 4, 2019. According to The Washington Post, Kaplan claimed "she intends to prove that Trump acted with 'malice,' meaning that he knew his statements were false or showed reckless disregard for the truth."{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-writer-who-accused-trump-of-sexual-assault-sues-him-for-defamation/2019/11/04/8ab2afb0-fcf7-11e9-9534-e0dbcc9f5683_story.html |title=New York writer who accused Trump of sexual assault sues him for defamation |last=Reinhard |first=Bet |newspaper=The Washington Post |quote=Trump said Carroll was 'totally lying' and 'not my type' when she made her accusation this summer. Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said she intends to prove that Trump acted with 'malice,' meaning that he knew his statements were false or showed reckless disregard for the truth. |date=November 4, 2019 |access-date=January 18, 2021}}
The lawsuit was moved from state to federal court when the US Department of Justice moved to take over Trump's defense (a motion that was denied in October 2020).{{Cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/27/federal-judge-trump-jean-carroll-defamation-432736 |title=Federal judge rebuffs Justice Department's bid to aid Trump in defamation case |author1=Gerstein, Josh |author2=Cheney, Kyle |work=Politico |date=October 27, 2020 |access-date=January 18, 2021}} Kaplan said she welcomed pursuing the lawsuit in federal court.
Although the Department of Justice appealed that decision, Kaplan told reporters, "we are confident that the Second Circuit will affirm the District Court’s comprehensive and well-reasoned opinion."{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/25/doj-appeals-decision-on-trump-in-e-jean-carroll-rape-claim-case.html |title=DOJ appeals ruling that kept Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll rape claim case |last=Mangan |first=Dan |work=CNBC |quote=It remains to be seen whether the new Attorney General will agree that Trump was acting within the scope of his employment as President when he defamed our client. In any event, we are confident that the Second Circuit will affirm the District Court’s comprehensive and well-reasoned opinion. |date=November 25, 2020 |access-date=January 18, 2021}}
Kaplan represented Carroll in her civil trial E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald J. Trump, that began on April 25, 2023, in federal court at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The jury found in favor of Carroll on May 9, 2023, and awarded her damages of $5 million after finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.{{cite news |last1=Neumeister |first1=Larry |last2=Peltz |first2=Jennifer |last3=Sisak |first3=Michael |title=Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db |access-date=May 9, 2023 |work=Associated Press |date=May 9, 2023 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Orden |first1=Erica |last2=Parnell |first2=Wesley |title=Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse in E. Jean Carroll case |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/09/trump-e-jean-carroll-trial-verdict-00096009 |access-date=May 9, 2023 |work=Politico |date=May 9, 2023 |language=en}} On January 26, 2024, after a second defamation trial against Donald Trump that was limited only to the question of damages for statements Trump made while president, a different jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages.{{cite news |last1=Neumeister |first1=Larry |last2=Offenhartz |first2=Jake |last3=Peltz |first3=Jennifer |title=Donald Trump must pay an additional $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in defamation case, jury says |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-defamation-trial-e4ea8b93cdeb29857864ffd8d14be888 |access-date=27 January 2024 |work=AP News |date=26 January 2024 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Weiser |first1=Benjamin |last2=Bromwich |first2=Jonah E. |last3=Cramer |first3=Maria |last4=Christobek |first4=Kate |title=Jury Orders Trump to Pay Carroll $83.3 Million After Years of Insults |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/nyregion/trump-defamation-trial-carroll-verdict.html |access-date=27 January 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=26 January 2024}}{{cite news |title=Trump ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3M in defamation damages trial |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/26/trump-verdict-e-jean-carroll-defamation-trial/ |access-date=27 January 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=26 January 2024 |language=en}}
=''Mary Trump v. Donald Trump et al.''=
{{Main|Mary L. Trump#Will of Fred Trump Sr.}}
On September 24, 2020, Kaplan and her firm filed a lawsuit with the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, on behalf of plaintiff Mary L. Trump, accusing President Donald J. Trump and his siblings, Maryanne Trump Barry and Robert Trump, of decades of financial fraud and civil conspiracy.{{cite news |last1=Feuer |first1=Alan |title=Mary Trump Sues President and Family, Claiming Fraud of Millions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/nyregion/mary-trump-suing-trump-family.html |access-date=10 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=September 24, 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Heller |first1=Karen |title=Attorney Roberta Kaplan is about to make Trump's life extremely difficult |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/roberta-kaplan-lawyer-attorney-trump/2021/01/17/ae8890f2-50f8-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html |access-date=10 August 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 18, 2021}}
Works
- Roberta A. Kaplan, with Lisa Dickey. Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA. New York: W. W. Norton, 2015. {{ISBN|9780393248678}}
Awards and recognition
- Forty Most Influential Lawyers under Forty, National Law Journal (2005){{cite web|url=http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=900005543404/Roberta-Kaplan-38?slreturn=20140625165608 |title=Roberta Kaplan, 38 |publisher=National Law Journal |date=May 9, 2005 |access-date=August 16, 2014}}
- 100 Most Influential Lawyers, Above The Law (2013){{cite web|url=http://abovethelaw.com/2014/01/above-the-laws-2013-lawyer-of-the-year-competition-the-winner/ |title=Above the Law's 2013 Lawyer of the Year Competition|date=January 6, 2014 |publisher=Abovethelaw.com |access-date=July 18, 2014}}
- Litigator of the Year, American Lawyer (2013){{cite web|url=http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202633559648/Litigator-of-the-Year:-Roberta-Kaplan?slreturn=20140327142823 |title=Litigator of the Year: Roberta Kaplan |publisher=The American Lawyer |date=January 2, 2014 |access-date=July 18, 2014}}
- National Public Service Award, Stanford University (2013){{cite web|url=https://www.law.stanford.edu/organizations/programs-and-centers/john-and-terry-levin-center-for-public-service-and-public-interest-law/awards-and-fellowshi-4 |title=2013 Recipients | Stanford Law School |publisher=Law.stanford.edu |date=October 29, 2013 |access-date=August 6, 2014}}
- Honorary Doctorate, Johns Hopkins University (2014){{cite web|author= Rector, Kevin |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2014/05/22/doma-plaintiff-attorney-receive-honorary-degrees-applause-at-hopkins-commencement/ |title=DOMA plaintiff, attorney receive honorary degrees, applause at Hopkins commencement |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=May 22, 2014 |access-date=August 6, 2014}}
- Lifetime Achievement Award, New York Law Journal (2015){{cite web|last1=Baker|first1=Rebecca|title=Lifetime Achievement: Roberta Kaplan|url=http://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/almID/1202739510156/?slreturn=20170923162653|website=New York Law Journal|access-date=October 21, 2017}}
- In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, an event widely considered a watershed moment in the modern LGBTQ rights movement, Queerty named her one of the Pride50 "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people".{{Cite web|url=https://www.queerty.com/pride50|title=Queerty Pride50 2019 Honorees|website=Queerty|language=en-US|access-date=June 18, 2019}}
- 2019 recipient of Gay Men's Health Crisis Joan H. Tisch Award for Community Service and Philanthropy{{cite news |title=Roberta Kaplan Honored at Gay Men's Health Crisis Fall Gala; GMHC Launches Roberta Kaplan Legal Center |url=https://www.kaplanhecker.com/newsroom/roberta-kaplan-honored-gay-men%E2%80%99s-health-crisis-fall-gala-gmhc-launches-roberta-kaplan-legal |access-date=23 September 2021 |work=Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP |date=October 7, 2019}}
- Crain's 2019 Most Powerful Women in New York{{cite news |last1=Potkewitz |first1=Hilary |title=44. Roberta Kaplan |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/most-powerful-women-2019-roberta-kaplan |access-date=23 September 2021 |work=Crain's}}
- George A. Katz Torch of Learning Award (TOL) (2023){{Cite web |title=53rd Annual George A. Katz Torch of Learning Award Luncheon // Cooley // Global Law Firm |url=https://www.cooley.com/events/2023/2023-05-18-53rd-annual-george-a-katz-torch-of-learning-award-luncheon |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=www.cooley.com |language=en-US}}
Personal life
Kaplan is openly gay.{{Cite web|url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/commencement-roberta-kaplan|title="If You Believe That It Is Possible to Break, Believe That It Is Possible to Repair"|first=Nina|last=Pasquini|date=May 29, 2019|website=Harvard Magazine}} In September 2005, Kaplan married her partner, Rachel Lavine, in Toronto, Canada.{{cite web|last1=Wolfe|first1=Anna|title='Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue': The JFP Interview with Roberta Kaplan|work=Jackson Free Press|url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/mar/04/justice-justice-thou-shalt-pursue-jfp-interview-ro/|access-date=23 September 2021}} Kaplan is Jewish.{{cite news |last1=Wexler |first1=Ellen |title=Roberta Kaplan Takes White Supremacy to Court |url=https://momentmag.com/roberta-kaplan-takes-white-supremacy-to-court/ |access-date=23 September 2021 |work=Moment Magazine |date=Winter 2020}}
References
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External links
- [http://robertakaplan.com/ Website of Roberta A. Kaplan]
- [https://www.kaplanhecker.com/our-talent/roberta-kaplan Profile at website of law firm]
- {{C-SPAN|1020081}}
- [http://www.thepeoplesbrief.com/#read-brief The People's Brief (Human Rights Campaign, 2015)]
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