Robert K. Tanenbaum (born 1942) is an American trial attorney, novelist, and former mayor of Beverly Hills, California.
Robert K. Tanenbaum, born in Brooklyn, New York, attended the University of California, Berkeley on a basketball scholarship where he earned a B.A.
[4] He taught Advanced Criminal Procedure for four years at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
He conducts continuing legal education seminars for practicing lawyers in California, New York and Pennsylvania.
His cousin Michael Gruber[9] was the ghostwriter of the first part of the popular Butch Karp -Marlene Ciampi series of novels, starting with No Lesser Plea and ending with Resolved.
[11] Tanenbaum's The Piano Teacher , co-written with Peter S. Greenberg, is the true story of a psychotic killer, Badge of the Assassin recalls the true account of Tanenbaum's investigation and trial of self-proclaimed members of the Black Liberation Army who assassinated two NYPD police officers, Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini.