Patrick Robbins
Acting United States Attorney // Northern District of California
Patrick D. Robbins served as the First Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California until February 12, 2025, when he returned to the Office to assume that role again on July 10, 2023.
Mr. Robbins has an extensive career in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, having previously worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for nearly ten years. From 1995 to 2004, he prosecuted a variety of cases involving organized crime, narcotics, firearms, bank robberies, insider trading, market manipulation, and investor fraud. During his tenure, he served as the Pacific Regional Coordinator for the DOJ’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section from 2000 to 2001. From 2002 to 2004, he was Chief of the Securities Fraud Section and a key member of the Enron Task Force, leading investigations into the criminal manipulation of California’s electricity markets by Enron and other parties during the State’s energy crisis.
From 2005 to 2023, Mr. Robbins worked as a partner at the law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP in San Francisco, focusing on white-collar criminal defense and investigations.
Mr. Robbins holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles (1985), and graduated summa cum laude from the American University, Washington College of Law (1989). After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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