Vicki Roberts

{{Short description|American attorney}}

{{notability|bio|date=December 2016}}

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|occupation = lawyer

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|education = California State University, Northridge (BA)
Southwestern Law School (JD)

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Vicki Michele Roberts{{cite web| url = https://www.martindale.com/santa-monica/california/vicki-michele-roberts-145189-a/| title = Vicki Michele Roberts Profile {{!}} Santa Monica, CA Lawyer {{!}} Martindale.com}} (born July 3, 1959){{cite book |last=Who's Who, Inc |first=Marquis |date=1989 |title=Who's Who in Entertainment, Volume 1 (1989) |publisher=Marquis Who's Who }} is an American attorney and an on-air legal commentator, as well as a television and film personality.

Born in Long Island, New York, Roberts obtained a degree in radio, Television, and Film from California State University, Northridge in 1980.{{Cite web|url=http://www.metnews.com/lamc-open.html|title=Six Seek Open Seat, One Aspires to Victory in the Primary|website=www.metnews.com|access-date=2018-03-14}} She graduated from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California in 1982, and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1983,{{Cite web|url=http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/108593|title=Attorney Search : The State Bar of California|last=California|first=The State Bar of|website=members.calbar.ca.gov|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-14}} and to the New Jersey State Bar in 1986.[https://njcourts.judiciary.state.nj.us/web15z/AttyPAWeb/pages/attorneySearchResultList.faces]{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/about/press/2006/connery_press_release.pdf#search=%22Jean%20Picker%20Firstenberg%20retirement%22 |title=AFI Press release|website=afi.com}} Roberts served as Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles Municipal Court from 1984 through 1990. She is a civil and criminal litigator, appellate practitioner, and has been called on as an on-air legal commentator. She was a series regular on Celebrity Justice and Jury Duty.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2399449/|title=Vicki Roberts|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-03-14}}

Roberts has served as the personal attorney of Gary Busey,{{Cite news|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-05-21/news/real-busey-discovers-fake-busey/|title=Real Busey Discovers Fake Busey|work=Seattle Weekly|access-date=2018-03-14}} David Carradine{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-david-carradine-life-in-pictures-003-photo.html|title=Vicki Roberts, David Carradine and Annie Bierman|last=Images|first=Getty|work=chicagotribune.com|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US}} and Michael Madsen,{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2014/01/quentin-tarantinos-script-hits-the-web-670331/|title=Quentin Tarantino's 'Hateful Eight' Script Hits The Web|last=Fleming|first=Mike Jr.|date=2014-01-24|work=Deadline|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-US}} and she was a leading attorney contributor to Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, edited by Larry King.{{Cite web|url=http://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/1639825/Reviews|title=Summary/Reviews: Beyond a reasonable doubt /|website=www.buffalolib.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}}