Robert Wilbert

Robert started his legal career at the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, where his first trial involved defending a consumer against a hospital trying to collect a debt for which his client was not legally liable—his wife’s debt.

Shortly after joining Legal Aid, the North American Free Trade Agreement caused many of his clients to lose their factory jobs, as corporations relocated their factories to Mexico. As a result, Robert had to learn bankruptcy law to protect his low-income clients’ car, wages, and homes from collection efforts by lenders. He was promoted to managing attorney of a Legal Aid office that served several rural counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

While in Maryland, Robert represented abused and neglected children in child dependency cases, as well as victims of domestic violence in court.

A few years later, Robert moved to Florida to be the Ryan White Project supervision attorney. This role involved representing people with AIDS/HIV and their relatives in consumer, bankruptcy, housing, and Social Security cases.

Robert helped launch the Saint Johns County Legal Aid office in St. Augustine, Florida, which represented low-income families in consumer, housing, and bankruptcy cases. Robert was moved to the main Jacksonville Area Legal Aid office since the Bankruptcy Court us located in Jacksonville.

While at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Robert defended 100s of low-income people against mortgage companies which were trying to take their homes in the Great Recession of 2008. He represented homeowners in state foreclosure court and in bankruptcy court.

In private practice, Robert represented Maryland and Florida families in the areas of asset protection—protecting their assets in consumer and estate cases, as well as representing developmentally disabled children and their caretakers in guardianship cases.

ADMISSIONS
Maryland Bar 1992 – Present
Florida Bar 2001 – Present