Robert C. Blume is a partner in the Denver and Washington, D.C. offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  His practice focuses on business crimes, investigations, and complex civil litigation.  Mr. Blume spent more than seven years as a federal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice and earned four Special Achievement Awards from the Attorney General. 

Mr. Blume has extensive trial experience and represents corporate executives before federal grand juries, the Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.  He also represents both corporations and individuals in local, state, and federal court.  In addition to providing expertise in corporate investigations and criminal defense, Mr. Blume helps clients navigate through Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") investigations and compliance initiatives, securities enforcement actions, environmental matters (criminal and civil), and export control issues.  He has represented criminal defendants under indictment or investigation by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.  Finally, Mr. Blume recently argued before the Fifth Circuit and defeated allegations brought against a client by an individual whistleblower alleging violations of the False Claims Act. 

Mr. Blume has conducted a number of Internal Investigations on behalf of Audit Committees, Boards of Directors, and management, including internal FCPA investigations in Europe, Asia, the Middle-East, Central America, and South America.  During these investigations, Mr. Blume has provided advice to Boards of Directors, senior management, and general counsel regarding company practices, internal compliance programs, disclosure issues, disciplinary action for company employees, and remedial measures for improving compliance.  Mr. Blume has conducted in-house training for executives, senior sales personnel, and foreign agents on FCPA policy and compliance.  Mr. Blume also has authored a number of articles on the FCPA and has frequently lectured on the topic.

In 2006, the firm honored Mr. Blume for his dedication and support to the community through his pro bono work. 

Before joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Mr. Blume served with distinction as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.  Assigned to the Homicide/Major Crimes Section, Mr. Blume investigated and prosecuted more than fifteen homicide trials and twenty drug and violent crime trials in local and federal courts.  Mr. Blume also spent four years with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.  As a trial attorney, Mr. Blume investigated and tried a number of Organized Crime and white collar cases involving RICO, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, credit card fraud, insurance fraud, computer security breaches, FCPA violations, obstruction of justice, money laundering, and conspiracy.

Mr. Blume graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1992, where he was an Associate Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and a member of the Georgetown Criminal Justice Clinic.  Mr. Blume received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Brown University in 1989.  He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and in the State of Colorado. 

Mr. Blume is currently the national co-chair of the Corporate Criminal Liability Subcommittee of the White Collar Crime section of the American Bar Association.