Marvin Grossberg

"Marvin Grossberg"

- Ah, the days of my youth... Just like the scent of fresh lemon, you see.

"Marvin Grossberg"

- *Ah-HHHHEM!*

Marvin Grossberg is a veteran criminal defense attorney who served as Mia Fey's mentor and headed his own law firm, Grossberg Law Offices. Diego Armando and Robert Hammond were also former employees.

Involvement in the DL-6 Incident
In 2001, Redd White bribed Grossberg into giving him information about a spirit medium named Misty Fey, whose abilities had been called upon by the police to assist in the investigation of the DL-6 Incident. Fey was publicly discredited and left Kurain Village. After discovering that the police were searching for the source of the leaked information, White turned on Grossberg, blackmailing him into doing whatever White liked lest White release to the public and to the police what Grossberg had done.

Tutelage of Mia Fey

 * Main article: Turnabout Memories

Several years later, Mia Fey, Misty's daughter, joined the Grossberg Law Offices. Grossberg and his associate, Diego Armando, took it upon themselves to assist her and teach her how to be a lawyer. Fey's first case in court would end in tragedy when the defendant, Terry Fawles, poisoned himself and died on the witness stand.

Not long after, Armando was poisoned and left in a comatose state. A few months later, Fey returned to the courtroom in the defense of Phoenix Wright. Grossberg was initially surprised by this. Wright refused to cooperate with Fey on the witness stand, and Grossberg gave up, remarking, "I knew that boy was guilty the first time I saw him." However, Fey convinced him to trust her, and with his cooperation the defense was saved from failure. Grossberg later realized that Fey's true goal was to nail Dahlia Hawthorne, who had poisoned her lover, Armando. With Grossberg's help, Mia managed to prove that Wright was innocent and that Dahlia Hawthorne was the one who had murdered Doug Swallow.

In the end, Grossberg was impressed with Fey's dedication to Wright, and realized that to be truly devoted to one's client could be what being a lawyer was all about, something he believed he had lost.

Assistance of Phoenix Wright

 * Main article: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Mia Fey eventually left Grossberg Law Offices and created her own law firm, Fey and Co. Law Offices. However, she would later be murdered by Redd White and Mia's younger sister Maya would be arrested for the crime. When Wright came to Grossberg's law office requesting his help, Grossberg flat-out rejected, stating that this was one case he couldn't take. Wright would ultimately take the case himself.

Later, Wright returned, needing information. Grossberg told him about White and his company, Bluecorp. Wright also noticed that a grand painting of Grossberg's had suddenly disappeared. He saw it again when he went to Bluecorp, about which he questioned Grossberg. Grossberg confessed that he had been paying off White for 15 years, ever since the DL-6 Incident. The painting was just the latest in a series of payoffs. That was also the reason he couldn't take Maya's case; White would have ruined him if he did by revealing he was the DL-6 leak.

Later that year, Wright returned to Grossberg Law Offices to request information about the DL-6 Incident. Robert Hammond, one of Grossberg's employees, had been murdered. Grossberg told them that Hammond had been the defense attorney in the DL-6 Incident. Wright returned again, asking about a lawyer named Gregory Edgeworth. Grossberg revealed to Wright that Edgeworth had stricken prosecutor Manfred von Karma with the only penalty of his career. Grossberg also told Wright about Misty Fey's involvement in the DL-6 Incident. With Grossberg's help, Wright was able to pin down Hammond's killer and find the truth behind the DL-6 Incident.

Personality
Grossberg is very strict and tends to speak nostalgically of his past. He has a habit of loudly and exaggeratedly coughing to draw someone's attention. Grossberg suffers from hemorrhoids and frequently complains about them. He appears to be fond of his past employees even after years of seeing them. This sentiment extends to their relatives; he treats Maya Fey very kindly and shows great concern over Miles Edgeworth.

Name

 * Marvin Grossberg's last name originates from the German words groß (large) and berg (mountain), and his first name comes from "marvelous". Thus, his name roughly means "marvelous big mountain".


 * His Japanese first and last names are references to famous detective novels; Hoshikage comes from the name of a detective in a Ayukawa Tetsuya novel, and Soranosuke (sora no suke, "boy of the stars"), from a reference made by the main character in Shimada Souji's mystery book, The Astrology Murders.


 * His French name, Rosenberg, is a common lawyer's surname.