Laurie Nicole Robinson was recently promoted to the newly created leadership role of Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of CBS Corporation, where she reports directly to the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of CBS Corporation. Along with her legal responsibilities to over 150 CBS radio and television stations, she assumes executive and managerial responsibilities in interfacing with legal divisions, facilitating training and overseeing the legal department’s special projects. Prior to joining the parent company, Ms. Robinson served as the Assistant General Counsel and Director of Training and Development for CBS Broadcasting Inc.

Prior to joining CBS, Ms. Robinson worked at two New York City law firms, Seyfarth Shaw LLP and Epstein, Becker and Green, P.C., where she represented management in labor and employment matters. Prior to joining the law firms, Ms. Robinson worked as a legal intern in the labor management division of the National Football League in New York City. Interestingly, while at the NFL, Ms. Robinson wrote and published a legal comment in the Indiana Law Journal entitled “Professional Athletes--Held to a Higher Standard and Above the Law: A Comment on High-Profile Criminal Defendants and the Need for States to Establish High-Profile Courts.”

Ms. Robinson matriculated at North Carolina Central University and received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in 1994. Notably, she served as a campus leader in the coveted role of Miss North Carolina Central University, where she provided public service to the Durham, North Carolina community, served as a national ambassador to the university and the school's 5,000 students. She attended Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington and received her Juris Doctorate in 1998. While at Indiana – Bloomington, Ms. Robinson served as President of the Student Law Association, the Notes and Comments Editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, and as a member on the Moot Court Board.

Ms. Robinson is the author of several legal-related publications. In addition, she is a popular and sought out speaker. She has presented at the American Bar Association, the Inside Counsel Super Conference, the National Bar Association, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, the South Asian Women Leaders Forum, and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Delta G.E.M.S Women in Law and Law Enforcement Center Fair.

Ms. Robinson is the founder and CEO of Corporate Counsel Women of Color®, a non profit organization of over 2,300 women attorneys of color who work primarily for Fortune 1000 and Forbes 2000 legal departments. Corporate Counsel Women of Color® is designed to promote diversity in the legal profession.

Ms. Robinson received accolades for her achievements in promoting diversity, including being recognized by The Coca-Cola Company's legal department and receiving the Women's Venture Fund's Highest Leaf Award, the Charting Your Own Course Spirit Award, the Groundwork, Inc. Impact Award, the Black Women Lawyer’s (Los Angeles) Power of One Award and the Black Women Lawyer’s (Chicago) Diversity Visionary Award, Ms. Robinson was featured in the annual women’s issue of Ebony Magazine in recognition of her leadership, ability to inspire others, and effectuate change. She was named to the Network Journal’s 40 Under Forty List, Precious Times magazine’s 15 Christian Leaders, and was highlighted as one of the legal industry’s women leaders in Vault’s View From the Top: Advice from Legal Women Leaders. Ms. Robinson was honored by the National Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Division and recipient of the very first M. Ashley Dickerson Award by the National Association of Women Lawyers. She is a recipient of the New York City Bar Association Diversity Champion Award and the New York State Bar Association Diversity Trailblazer Award. She was further bestowed with the prestigious honor of being named one of the 10-Up-And-Coming African-American Lawyers to Watch by Diversity & The Bar Magazine and was listed as a Power Broker by Inside Counsel in its GC 50 list of the most influential in-house counsel in North America.

Ms. Robinson is further active in her community. She mentors at-risk teens in New York City at the Sister Power Organization Inc. and founded and leads the legal ministry at her church in Harlem, the Soul Saving Station Christ Crusaders.

Ms. Robinson can be contacted at Laurie.Robinson@ccwomenofcolor.org.