Robert Katzberg is consulting counsel to Holland & Knight and the author of  “The Vanishing Trial” (Mascot Books, 2020). A cum laude graduate of George Washington University Law School, he began his career as a law clerk to the Hon. Oliver Gasch on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He then served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where his prosecution of political corruption and financial crimes earned him the coveted Attorney General’s Special Achievement Award. For the next four decades, as a partner in Kaplan & Katzberg, a white-collar criminal law boutique, he defended clients in high-profile cases. A Southern District of New York federal prosecutor described him as “the best cross-examiner” he had ever seen, and as a “formidable adversary” who “commands the courtroom.”