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Robert Palm is an American writer and producer for television, best known as the first executive producer of the currently running NBC drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit [1] [2] and a consulting producer on the currently running CBS drama, NCIS .

His work with Law & Order was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1992. [3]

He published his first novel in 2023, Erasure.

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References

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