Robert Garcia

Robert Garcia is a Tucson business and employment lawyer and partner who advises business leaders, executives, and human resources professionals. His practice includes employment compliance, civil rights, commercial litigation, workplace investigations, insurance coverage and defense, mediation, arbitration, and outside general counsel services. He helps employers address recruiting, onboarding, accommodations, performance management, discipline, and planned separations. His work combines litigation strategy with practical guidance designed to reduce workplace and operational risks.

Garcia earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School and his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Arizona. During his undergraduate studies, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and joined the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. His education provided a strong foundation in legal analysis, advocacy, writing, and business-focused problem-solving. This training supports his work on employment disputes, commercial matters, investigations, and regulatory concerns.

Garcia defends employers before administrative agencies and courts in matters involving discrimination, wage and hour compliance, retaliation, disability, leave issues, and wrongful termination. His broader litigation experience includes partnership and shareholder disputes, insurance coverage matters, products liability, and probate and estate litigation. He serves businesses as outside general counsel as well, providing ongoing advice on operational concerns, risk management, disputes, and employment-related decisions.

Robert Garcia was selected as a Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2016 through 2018. He is admitted in Arizona and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and several federal district courts. His professional involvement includes the American Bar Association and Southern Arizona Leadership Council. He has served in leadership roles with the American Constitution Society Tucson Lawyer Chapter, Humane Society of Southern Arizona, and University of Arizona Hispanic Alumni Association.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Farhang & Medcoff
• Member, American Bar Association

Licensed State

• Arizona

Education

• Boston College Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Arizona
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)