Robert Rubin is the legal director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco, and has been a civil rights attorney for the past twenty-five years, specializing in the areas of immigration and voting rights. Prior coming to the Lawyers' Committee, Mr. Rubin was the ACLU staff counsel in Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Rubin directs the Committee's voting rights project and secured the first injunction in the nation ordering a state to comply with the National Voter Registration Act ("motor voter" law). In another case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. Rubin was counsel to Latino voters in Monterey County who were opposed to at-large judicial elections that diluted their voting power. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the at-large system violated the interests of Latino voters. In a second favorable ruling in the same case, the Supreme Court rejected the state's argument that the at-large system was immune from review under the Voting Rights Act. Most recently, Mr. Rubin was counsel to minority voters challenging the elimination of community-based voting precincts during the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election. After temporary injunctive relief was ordered, the voting precincts were reinstated.