Robert K. Tanenbaum

Robert K. Tanenbaum
Born	Brooklyn, New York
Residence	Beverly Hills, California
Education	University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Attorney, politician, novelist

Robert K. Tanenbaum is an American trial attorney, novelist, and former mayor of Beverly Hills, California.

Robert K. Tanenbaum, born in Brooklyn, New York, attended the University of California, Berkeley on a basketball scholarship where he earned a B.A. He received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

It was under the leadership of District Attorney Frank Hogan where Tanenbaum learned about trial preparedness and presenting evidence to a jury as an Assistant New York County District Attorney in Manhattan. Later, Tanenbaum became head of the Homicide Bureau, served as Chief of the Criminal Courts, and was in charge of the D.A.'s legal staff training program. During his time in the D.A.'s office, Robert K. Tanenbaum never lost a felony case.

After his tenure in Manhattan's D.A.'s office, Robert K. Tanenbaum served as Deputy Chief Counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. In 1988 he appeared in the documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy.

In private practice, notably, he was a special prosecution consultant on the Hillside Strangler case in Los Angeles; defended Amy Grossberg in her sensationalized baby death case; and represented eight black plaintiffs in a significant racial profiling case.

He taught Advanced Criminal Procedure for four years at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He conducts continuing legal education seminars for practicing lawyers in California, New York and Pennsylvania. He remains a member of the State Bars of New York, Pennsylvania and California.

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