Brian M. Roberts was born in 1968 in Las Vegas, Nevada to an American father and a Serbian-Croatian mother. When he was a year old, Brian moved with his family to Zemun, a suburb of Belgrade, located across the confluence of the Sava and Danube Rivers in the former Yugoslavia. In his time there, he learned Serbo-Croatian, his first language, and was steeped in his family’s rich culture and traditions.

He returned to Las Vegas when he was five years old to start school. It was daunting at first, unable to speak or understand English, but he learned the language quickly. He excelled in school, graduated from Las Vegas High School, the University of Nevada Las Vegas with a degree in communications and a minor in political science, and the University of Phoenix with a Master of Business Administration.

Brian M. Roberts moved to Houston in 2001 to attend law school at South Texas College of Law. He participated in the trial advocacy moot court and mock trial programs, competing against other law schools in Texas and in Los Angeles.

In 2002, Brian M. Roberts was offered the opportunity to work for former Harris County District Court Judge John Ackerman at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague, Netherlands. Mr. Ackerman was defending Radoslav Brdjanin, president of the Autonomous Region of Krajina (ARK) Crisis Staff for alleged war crimes during the war in Bosnia.

Prior to traveling to The Hague, Brian was offered a pre-commit position with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, which, at the time, was considered a great distinction because it was an offer to join the Office prior to passing the bar exam and was reserved for the top candidates.

While working at the ICTY, Brian also completed his law school studies at the University of Leiden through an Agreement with South Texas College of Law.

Brian traveled from The Hague to the Republic of Serbia with the ABA CEELI (American Bar Association Central and East European Legal Initiative) where he met with professors and law students and discussed the differences between American and Republic of Serbia legal systems as well as his observations of the ICTY legal system.

Upon his return to Houston, Brian sat for the bar exam and then started working for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, trying his first case two months before receiving his bar card.

Brian spent five years as a prosecutor and tried many misdemeanor and felony cases, including drug cases, aggravated assaults, aggravated robberies, and murders. He spent the last two years in the Special Crimes Major Fraud Division where he handled numerous complex cases, initiating and directing investigations, and ultimately taking those cases to trial.

After five successful years as a prosecutor, Brian opened his law practice dedicated to defending individuals charged with state and federal crimes.