He is Editor-in-Chief of Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis (LexisNexis) and also serves as Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief and contributing writer for Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (3 vols., LexisNexis). Robinson is chair of the Larson’s National Workers’ Compensation Advisory Board.
Robinson received his B.A., cum laude, in both Economics and History in 1973 from Wake Forest University, his J.D. in 1976, from Wake Forest University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor, Wake Forest Law Review, and his M.Div. in 1989 from Duke University Divinity School. From 1976 to 1986, Mr. Robinson was in private practice, where he focused on workers’ compensation defense work. From 1987 to 1993, he was Senior Research and Writing Assistant to Arthur Larson, emeritus professor of law, Duke University Law School.
In 2018, Mr. Robinson wrote Questions of Faith: Encountering Christ at the Point of Doubt and Confusion (Mazarin Press, Raleigh, NC). The book consists of more than 30 meditations gleaned from a spiritual journal that Tom has written over the past 35 years.
Tom is most proud of his wife, Jane, to whom he has been married for 52 years, their four children (accompanied by two daughters-in-law and a son-in-law) and seven grandchildren: Callie (age 21), Jack (age 17), Maggie (10), Emory Cate (age 10), Andrew (age 8), Everett (age 7), and Ben (age 5).