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Anita Porte Robb, Robb & Robb

Staff Report//June 12, 2025//

Anita Porte Robb

Anita Porte Robb, Robb & Robb

Staff Report//June 12, 2025//

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Anita Robb is recognized as one of the top ten trial lawyers in the country, and she and her husband Gary Robb have established a national reputation for setting records in aircraft-crash litigation.

Last year, Robb & Robb secured the largest pre-trial settlement for a wrongful death in U.S. history, winning $100 million after a post-crash fire resulted in the death of a 31-year-old man.

Anita Robb also represented the family of basketball star Kobe Bryant after he and his daughter were killed in a helicopter crash, as well as Sen. Jean Carnahan in her lawsuit stemming from the plane crash that killed her husband, Gov. Mel Carnahan.

Robb has served on the faculty of the Missouri Judicial College is a past president of the Association of Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City.


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