In over 30 years of immigration legal practice, he has established himself as one of the leading practitioners specifically in the area of immigration law for physicians and allied healthcare professionals. He speaks and writes widely on the subject and has a long list of achievements attesting to his prominence in the physician immigration space, including having been named as the inaugural recipient of the Roberta Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of immigration law and policy for International Physicians. Robert holds his JD from the Indiana University School of Law and thereafter was a Fulbright fellow at the law schools of Harvard University and Moscow State University in Russia.