Robert Fabrikant is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice, and Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice. He is a trial lawyer who focuses on complex civil and criminal litigation in the health care, financial services, defense, and energy sectors. He has extensive experience defending government investigations and litigations under the False Claims Act, and conducting internal investigations. Prior to joining Manatt, Mr. Fabrikant had been the chair of the Health Care Practice at Sidley Austin LLP.

After graduating law school, Mr. Fabrikant served as the Senior Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. He then taught at the University of Singapore Law School, served as Chief Counsel to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, and a trial attorney at the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mr. Fabrikant is the Co-Founder and former Co-Chairperson of the False Claims Act and the Qui Tam Subcommittee of the American Bar Association White Collar Crime Committee, 1992-2001. He is also the Founder and former Chairperson of the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Subcommittee of the American Bar Association White Collar Crime Committee, 1991-2000.

Mr. Fabrikant is the Professor in the Practice at Howard University School of Law, where he has taught, tutored and coached for 10 years. He teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Legal History, and Oral Advocacy. He has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Southern California Law School, Fudan University School of Law in Shanghai, and the Transnational Law and Business University in Seoul, South Korea.