Edward M. Robbins, Jr. has been a principal with the Hochman Salkin Rettig Toscher &
Perez, P.C., a tax boutique law firm in Beverly Hills, California since 2004. Before
entering private practice, Mr. Robbins was an Assistant United States Attorney with the
Central District of California, Tax Division. Mr. Robbins left the government after ten
years servings as the Chief of the Tax Division, six years as Assistant Division Chief, nine
years as Assistant United States Attorney, and 4 years as a District Counsel attorney with
the IRS Chief Counsel office in Los Angeles.
Mr. Robbins has a well-deserved reputation as a leading member of the civil and criminal
tax bar in the United States as the result of extensive experience representing both the
United States of America and taxpayers. Mr. Robbins’ credentials include Federal and
California civil tax and criminal tax litigation with civil tax and criminal tax controversy
matters before the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, and various state
taxing authorities involving individuals, business enterprises, partnerships, limited
liability companies, and corporations. He has represented the United States of America,
individuals, entities and organizations who were civil litigants, targets, subjects, or
witnesses in Federal and California criminal investigations and related grand jury and pre-trial proceedings, trials and appeals. Mr. Robbins is a lawyer with a strong working
knowledge of the tax law, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice. He
understands and respects the Department of Justice’s Tax Division. That knowledge
combined with his practical strategic common sense enable him to achieve the right tax
result.
As Chief of the Tax Division, Mr. Robbins supervised the lawyers in the Tax Division and
personally handled a full caseload specializing in complex, civil and criminal tax litigation.
Besides his litigation duties, he was responsible for the management of the Tax Division's
tax cases and supervised the Special AUSA's on loan from the IRS Chief Counsel in
bankruptcy matters. One aspect to the success of his job was his effective management and
coordination with the Assistant Attorney General (Tax) and the Tax Division in developing
and ensuring uniform national tax policy. Mr. Robbins received numerous awards from the
Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation and the IRS
Chief Counsel. Mr. Robbins was a regular Trial Instructor at the Attorney General’s
Advocacy Institute from 1988 to 2004.
As a nationally recognized tax professional, Mr. Robbins is often called upon to participate
in programs dealing with civil and criminal tax practice, procedure, controversy and
litigation matters, before government agencies and professional organizations. He is the co-author of PLI’s two volume tax treatise, IRS Practice and Procedure Desktop. Mr. Robbins
has also been honored to serve as an adjunct law professor with Loyola Law School and
Golden Gate University School of Law. He has written, lectured and taught legal topics on
U.S. tax procedure. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Tax Section,
California State Bar’s Taxation Section, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Taxation Section,
Los Angeles County Bar Association, Taxation Section and American College of Tax
Counsel.
He earned his LL.M. from University of San Diego, Magna Cum Laude, in 1984, his
J.D. from Golden Gate University, with honors, in 1978, and is B.S.E.E., from Ohio State
University, with honors, in 1971. Mr. Robbins is a Certified Specialist in Taxation with the
State Bar of California. He is admitted to the bars of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth
Circuit, Ninth Circuit, D.C. Circuit, U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern, Northern and
Southern Districts of California, District of Hawaii, U.S. Claims Court, U.S. Tax Court, State
Bar of California, State Bar of Hawaii, and the District of Columbia Bar, and the U.S.
Supreme Court

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