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Ann R. Robinson Partner
Office:	Augusta, ME
Phone:	207.623.5300
Fax:	207.623.2914
Email:	arobinson@preti.com
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Ann R. Robinson joined the firm as an attorney in 1988 and is a resident partner of the Augusta office. She currently serves as Chair of its Government Affairs Practice Group and as a member of the Health Law Group.  She recently completed a term as a member of the firm's Management Committee. Ann specializes in legislative and regulatory law and has extensive experience in health, environmental, insurance and professional regulation issues. Ann is listed in Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America.  Ann served as Co-Chair of Governor Paul LePage's transition team, with specific responsibility for policy and regulatory review, and continues to serve in an advisory capacity. She was also appointed to Governor LePage's Judicial Selection Committee, a group that advises on judicial nominations. Ann was also recently appointed to a four-year term on the Maine Public Broadcasting Board of Trustees.

Ann routinely represents clients before the Maine Legislature and before various State boards and commissions on licensing, permitting and enforcement matters, such as the Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, and the Maine Department of Human Services. Her clients include the pharmaceutical industry, financial institutions, nonprofit biomedical research facilities, among others.

She also represents clients in litigation arising out of administrative agency decisions. Ms. Robinson served as local co-counsel to the pharmaceutical industry in a constitutional challenge to a state price-regulation statute. She has assisted numerous insurance companies before the Maine Bureau of Insurance in obtaining licenses to transact business in Maine. She has also successfully defended clients before the Bureau in disciplinary proceedings and on statutory compliance issues.

Ann is one of Maine's foremost authorities on underground oil storage tank (UST) laws and regulations. She was one of the principal participants in the legislative effort that established a pollution liability fund for UST operators in 1990. Ann's experience with USTs has also included representation of clients before the Board of Environmental Protection, where she has participated in UST rulemaking proceedings, assisted clients with fund claims and negotiated consent agreements for tank operators cited for violations.

Born in Lewiston, Maine, Ann graduated from Brown University and earned her law degree in 1988 at the University of Maine School of Law, where she received the American Jurisprudence Award in Torts. She joined Preti Flaherty in 1983 as a paralegal, became an attorney with the firm in 1988 and attained Partnership status in 1996.

She was appointed by the Bush Administration to serve as a Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston.

She is also a former member of the Maine Human Rights Commission, a gubernatorial appointment

Ann also served as a regular panelist on the weekly television program Mainely Issues, offering political commentary on issues affecting Maine and its citizens. She is active in state and national Republican organizations and served as Chair of the Maine Republican Convention in 2008. Ann has served as counsel to the Maine Republican Party, as well as state counsel to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004. She was the Maine Republicans' nominee for Maine Attorney General in 1996.

Ann currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce.

She is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in Lewiston and is a former Parish Council President.