Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III

PRESIDENT, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
2011 – 2012

Wm. T. (Bill) Robinson III is Member-in-Charge of the Northern Kentucky offices of Frost Brown Todd LLC, a regional law firm with offices in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia and Indiana. He currently serves as President of the American Bar Association for a one-year term which began on August 8, 2011.

Throughout his forty year career, Robinson has been a volunteer leader in his profession and in his community. An ABA member since 1972, he has been active in the Association for more than 25 years in various leadership roles, including three years as ABA Treasurer, eight years on the ABA Board of Governors and nine years as Kentucky State Delegate on the ABA Nominating Committee. Robinson has served as a President of the Kentucky Bar Association, President of the Kentucky Bar Foundation, Founding Chair of Kentucky’s Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA) and President of the National Caucus of State Bar Associations.

Robinson is a  Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers; Sustaining Attorney Member of the Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC); Sustaining Member of the American Law Institute (ALI); a Founding Board Member of the Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI) at Southern Methodist University; Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America; Member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC); Fellow of the International Society of Barristers (ISB); and a Life Member of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals having served on the Life Members Committee and the Judicial Conference Planning Committee.

Robinson is a graduate of Thomas More College and the University of Kentucky, College of Law, where in 2004 he was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame. He served as Chair of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport Board, Chair of the Cincinnati USA Partnership for Economic Development and is Founding Secretary-Treasurer of the Tri-County Economic Development Corporation (Tri-ED).

VIDEO LINKS
ABA President Robinson discusses key initiatives and prominent issues facing the legal profession.

• President Robinson on the Task Force on the Preservation of the Justice System
• President Robinson on Court Underfunding
• President Robinson on Diversity
• President Robinson on Lawyers Giving Back
• President Robinson on Joining the ABA
• President Robinson on Transparency in Law School Data Reporting
• President Robinson on Ethics 20/20
• President Robinson on Judicial Disqualification
• President Robinson on Immigration