Cohen Milstein

Sharon K. Robertson joined Cohen Milstein as an Associate in 2007 and is a member of the Antitrust practice group.

Ms. Robertson currently represents Registered Nurses employed by hospitals in Albany, Detroit and Memphis in lawsuits alleging that their employers unlawfully fixed their wages in violation of federal antitrust laws.  Ms. Robertson is also working on In re Urethane Antitrust Litigation (Polyether Polyol Cases) (D. Kan.), where she represents a class of direct purchasers of several types of chemicals who allegedly were overcharged as a result of a nationwide price-fixing and market allocation conspiracy.  One defendant, Bayer, already has settled for $55.3 million and is providing cooperation pursuant to its obligations under the settlement agreement.  

Ms. Robertson also represents Indonesian villagers in a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil over torture and extrajudicial killings allegedly committed by the defendant’s security forces (a unit of the Indonesian military).

Before attending law school, Ms. Robertson worked on the campaign committee of Councilman John Liu, the first Asian-American to be elected to New York City’s City Council.

During law school, Ms. Robertson served as an Alexander Fellow.  In that capacity, she spent a semester interning full-time for the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  She was also an intern in the Litigation Bureau of the Office of the New York State Attorney General and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Ms. Robertson graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where she received a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law (magna cum laude, 2003).  She received her law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D., 2006).  She served as Notes Editor of the Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal.

Ms. Robertson is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.