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Robert F. Muse

Partner, joined firm in '79
rmuse@steinmitchell.com
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Phone: 202.661.0927

1100 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

Robert F. Muse has an extensive background in civil and criminal litigation. He is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America and the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the best lawyers in Washington, DC for criminal defense work and civil litigation.

In the news: Read 6/20/10 Boston Globe Article honoring Bob Muse's three-decade struggle for justice for Ulster's Bloody Sunday victims.

He has achieved some of the largest plaintiffs' verdicts in the Washington metropolitan area, including experience on Benedi v. McNeil. He has tried over a hundred cases to judgment or verdict, including product liability claims, wrongful death actions, fraud, professional malpractice, and other civil tort actions, as well as numerous white collar criminal defense cases.

  • Partner, Stein, Mitchell & Muse from 1983 to present (joined firm, then Stein, Mitchell & Mezines in 1979)

  • Staff Attorney, DC Public Defender Service (1974-1979)

  • Staff Attorney with the Senate Watergate Committee (1973-1974)

  • General Counsel, Special Senate Committee to Investigate Hurricane Katrina (2005-2006)

  • Counsel to both Democratic and Republican United States Senators, as well as other Members of Congress and staff

  • Counsel to key witnesses in the Iran-Contra investigation

  • Chairperson, DC Bar Committee inquiry on review of the relationship between the judiciary and court-appointed counsel, Superior Court of the District of Columbia (1994)

  • Co-Chairperson of the Criminal Practice Institute, District of Columbia Bar

  • Counsel to lawyers in the Department of Justice in various investigations

  • Counsel in more than 30 personal injury matters resulting in verdicts or settlements in excess of $1 million

  • Extensive grand jury experience, including Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988)

  • Conducted in-house investigations relating to allegations of fraud, sexual harassment and ethical violations

  • Counsel to individual executives in the "Ill Winds" defense procurement fraud investigation

  • Counsel to numerous executives in procurement fraud and false claim investigations by the Department of Justice

  • Counsel to numerous executives in federal anti-trust criminal cases re: electrical contracting industry, road paving industry, and soft drink industry

  • Counsel to primary target in the White House FBI files case

  • Counsel to individuals or corporations in virtually every Independent Counsel Act investigation

  • Counsel in District of Columbia's only judicial bribery case (United States v. Campbell, et al.)

  • Counsel in various espionage cases and litigation involving classified information

  • Counsel in various cases involving civil and criminal RICO claims

  • Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (courses: Trial Practice; Congressional Investigations seminar)

  • Instructor, DC Bar Trial Practice program.

  • Co-author: Congressional Investigations: Politics and Process , Volume 44 American Criminal Law Review 1115-1176 (2007) 
Education
  • Boston College, BS in Finance (1969)
  • Georgetown University Law Center, JD (1972)