Experience & Credentials
Practice Areas
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Employment Contracts
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Entity Formation
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Separation and Disputes
EDUCATION
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1990
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Member, Human Rights Law Review
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Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
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Charles Evans Hughes Human Rights Fellow
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Intern, National Organization for Women Legal Defense Fund, 1988
Ph.D., English, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
M.Phil., English, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
M.A., with honors, English, Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
B.A., cum laude, English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Bar and Court Admissions:
New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Memberships
New York City Bar Association
National Employment Lawyers Association
Publications:
"Creditor Standing to Bring Third-Party Actions Outside Bankruptcy Proceedings," Ronald E. Reinsel and Rita C. Tobin, in Insolvency & Restructuring, a newsletter of the International Law Office, May 23, 2014.
About Rita C. Tobin
Rita C. Tobin founded RCTobinLaw, PLLC in 2014. She represents senior professionals and independent contractors in negotiating employment contracts and severance packages, forming business entities, and negotiating or litigating employment disputes, including claims of discrimination and retaliation. She represents clients in negotiation, in arbitration, before administrative agencies, and in federal and state court.
Before founding the firm, Ms. Tobin spent four years as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she represented a major U.S. bank in a two-year, multimillion-dollar loan dispute. She then spent 16 years in the New York office of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, a Washington-based firm, where she represented creditors' committees in high-profile mass tort bankruptcies, represented debtors and creditors in corporate reorganizations, took part in an internal investigation for a major securities firm, and represented individuals and small businesses in commercial matters.
Her pro bono work includes representing a death row inmate whose conviction was reversed; litigating on behalf of a New York City neighborhood organization concerning the quality of care provided to the homeless mentally ill; and incorporating a New York not-for-profit that advocates for cancer research.
Ms. Tobin is also an adjunct assistant professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she has taught literature and literary studies since 2005.