Biography
Robert Fippinger is a senior counsel in the New York office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he specializes in the securities law of public finance. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his law degree from the University of Michigan law school, he received a Ph.D. in 1969 at Northwestern University in its law and politics program.
Mr. Fippinger was an adjunct professor at New York University law school and Hofstra law school where he taught the securities law of public finance, and was a visiting lecturer in law at Yale University law school where he taught the constitutional, tax and securities law of public finance. He is the author of the third edition of the Practicing Law Institute's treatise entitled The Securities Law of Public Finance, which, in prior editions, has been updated annually for 20 years. He is currently serving as a member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.