Robert (Bobby) Hunter is an Attorney at Relman Colfax. He joined the firm in 2024 and works on a wide variety of civil rights litigation.
Prior to joining the firm, Bobby was an appellate public defender at the Center for Appellate Litigation (CAL) in New York. At CAL, Bobby’s practice included direct criminal appeals and post-conviction litigation in New York state courts, and amicus advocacy before the New York Court of Appeals. Bobby began his legal career as an Equal Justice Works fellow at the ACLU Racial Justice Program, where he helped develop and advance litigation challenging debtors’ prisons, wealth-based driver’s license suspension and unlawful prison conditions. He clerked for the Hon. Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Hon. Edgardo Ramos of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Bobby graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was a Latinx Rights Scholar. He was a member of the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic, where he pursued relief for noncitizens in federal court and before the Board of Immigration Appeals. He also served as a fellow with NYU’s Center on Race, Inequality and the Law, and as a student article development editor with the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. He received his B.A. from Brown University, where he was awarded the Yat K. Tow Prize for his service to the Providence community.
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