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Lawyer and LGBT activist Roberta A. "Robbie" Kaplan focuses her legal practice on commercial litigation and public interest matters. She co-founded the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund and is an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School. She was a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison before starting her own firm in 2017. Kaplan successfully argued before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of LGBT rights activist Edith Windsor, in United States v. Windsor, a landmark decision that invalidated a section of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and required the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages.
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