About
Robert Chisholm s regulation exercise makes a speciality of representing disabled veterans in the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and before the Department of Veterans Affairs. Robert has been representing disabled veterans on account that 1990. During his extensive profession, Robert has efficiently represented veterans before the Board of Veterans Appeals, Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Robert is a founding member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Bar Association and served as President of that organization for the year 2002-2003. Mr. Chisholm served as the President of the National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates from 1999 to 2004. Mr. Chisholm’s work on behalf of NOVA resulted inside the change to 38 U.S.C. § 5904 which now allows veterans to lease an legal professional after the awareness of disagreement is filed. He has supplied at NOVA conferences, CAVC Bar Association Conferences, as well as the CAVC and Federal Circuit Judicial Conferences. He is the first recipient of NOVA’s most prestigious honor, the Kenneth Carpenter Achievement Award for Excellence. Mr. Chisholm became additionally inducted into the NOVA Hall of Honor in April of 2016 in recognition of a lifetime of determination, provider, and management. In 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) presented Mr. Chisholm the Hart T. Mankin Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his 25 years of first-rate provider to the Court.
Mr. Chisholm has served as appellant’s lead suggest in over 7,500 instances before the CAVC. Mr. Chisholm is admitted to exercise law inside the following courts: Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (1991); Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1995); Supreme Court (1995). In addition, he's admitted to exercise inside the United States District Court for Rhode Island, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and Massachusetts.
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- Founding Partner
Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LTD
1990 - Lawyer
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
1988
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Graduation year: 1988
