Overview

Real estate attorney Robby Brewer skillfully guides major regional developers, institutional owners, and retailers through the critical phases of expanding, developing, buying, and selling real property in Montgomery County, Maryland and surrounding jurisdictions.

Robby helps clients succeed through listening, awareness, persuasion, and foresight. An inductee into the Montgomery County Business Hall of Fame, he orchestrates the critical components of major development projects, including master plans, development applications, site plans, and subdivisions. He also participates in real estate transactional work with firm colleagues.

Robby has been an active leader in many of the area’s most prominent civic, community and cultural organizations, including the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation, the Music Center at Strathmore, the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce, Imagination Stage, KID Museum, and the Bethesda Urban Partnership. Since 1988, he served frequently as Lerch Early’s board chair and managing partner.

Robby is an avid biker, hiker and aficionado of all the arts, including film and photography, but his greatest love is live music of all kinds. He plays drums in a rock band, The Uncounted.

Clerkships

• Served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard B. Latham, 6th Judicial Circuit of Maryland (1976-1977)

Honors and awards

• Named to Top Attorney List by Bethesda Magazine (2019, 2021, 2022)
• Washingtonian Magazine’s DC’s Best Lawyers “Real Estate” (2020; 2017-2018; 2022)
• Received Boy Scouts of America (National Capital Area Council) Distinguished Citizen Award (2017)
• Inducted into Montgomery County Business Hall of Fame (2016)
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America: Real Estate Law, and Land Use and Zoning Law (1990-present)
• Named Chambers USA “Leader in the Field” (2007-present)
• Listed in Super Lawyers Maryland, Land Use & Zoning (2007-present)
• Listed in Super Lawyers Washington, DC, Land Use & Zoning (2007-present)
• Ranked AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings
• Received Rebuilding Together Montgomery County’s Community Honors Award (2013)
• Received Big Train Baseball’s Randy Schools Outstanding Service Award (2012)
• Received Washington Adventist Hospital’s Spirit of Mission Award (2011)
• Received Henry Lerch Pro Bono Service Award (2011)
• Received Greater Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce Chairman’s Award (2009); William Prescott Allen Award (1995) and Ron Resh Business Advisory Award (2011)
• Received Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission’s Community Service Award (1995)
• Received St. Luke’s House’s Community Service Award (1995)

Community involvement

• Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation (Chair, 2019-2022; Vice Chair, 2015-2017, 2018-2019; Board of Directors, 2015-2023)
• Montgomery Business Development Corporation (Chair, 2014-2015; Board of Directors, 2010-2015)
• Greater Bethesda Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce (Counsel to the Board, 2004-2008, 1996-1997; President, 1994-1995; VP-Economic Development, 1993-1994; VP-Legislative Relations, 1992-1993)
• Bethesda Kiwanis (Member, 1978-present; Foundation President, 1990-1992; President, 1984-1985)
• Music Center at Strathmore (Chair, 2016-2018; Vice Chair, 2014-2016; Secretary, 2011-2013; Board of Directors, 2010-2020)
• KID Museum (Vice-Chair, 2019—present)
• Bethesda Urban Partnership (Chair, 1998-1999; Board of Directors, 1995-2001)
• Washington Adventist Hospital Foundation (President, 2013-2023; Board of Directors, 1999-present)
• Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Educational Foundation (Board of Trustees, 2005-2017)
• Miracle League of Montgomery County (President, 2018-present; Board of Trustees, 2010-present)
• Chevy Chase Village Ethics Commission (Member, 2012-present)
• The Trawick Foundation (Board of Trustees, 2009-present)
• Montgomery County Zoning Advisory Panel (2009-2012)
• Imagination Stage (President, 2000-2003; Board of Trustees, 1996-2000)
• Montgomery County Task Force on Alcoholic Beverage Laws (1995-1996)
• Somerset Elementary School Educational Foundation (Board of Directors, 1994-1998)
• BCC Baseball, Inc. (Coach, 1993-1999)

Professional memberships

• Urban Land Institute
• Maryland State Bar Association (Fellow)
• Bar Association of Montgomery County