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Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd

United States (National)

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Key practice areas
Dispute resolution
Top Plaintiffs
Securities
Firm overview

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP specializes in complex litigation representing plaintiffs in securities fraud, antitrust, breach of fiduciary duty, consumer fraud, and privacy cases. The Firm’s unparalleled experience and capabilities in these fields are based on the talents of its attorneys, who have successfully prosecuted thousands of class action lawsuits. Robbins Geller has achieved success across several different, entirely distinct practice areas in a way that few firms have in any one practice area– from antitrust to consumer protection to shareholder litigation.

The Firm is widely recognized as a leading law firm worldwide. Judges have described Robbins Geller as one of the most formidable securities law firms in the country. With 200 lawyers in 10 offices nationwide, the Firm has the resources, experience, and tenacity to achieve superior results.

The Firm’s attorneys have obtained many of the largest recoveries in history: the largest consumer class action recovery ($17+ billion in Volkswagen); the largest securities class action recovery ($7.2 billion in Enron); the largest antitrust class action recovery ($5.5 billion in Visa/Mastercard); the largest securities class action recovery following trial ($1.575 billion in HSBC/Household International); the largest pharmaceutical securities class action recovery ($1.21 billion in Valeant Pharmaceuticals); the largest cash recovery in a stockholder merger & acquisition case in the Delaware Court of Chancery ($1 billion in Dell Technologies); the largest stock option backdating recovery ($925 million in UnitedHealth Group); the largest securities fraud class action recovery in the Ninth Circuit in the last decade ($809.5 million in Twitter); the largest opt-out (non-class) securities action recovery ($657 million in WorldCom); the largest biometric class action settlement ($650 million in Facebook); the largest RMBS purchaser class action recovery ($500 million in Countrywide); and the largest personal contributions by individual defendants in a securities class action recovery ($237.5 million of $1.025 billion total recovery in American Realty Capital Properties).

Our Firm has been ranked #1 in the ISS Securities Class Action Services rankings for four out of the last five years for securing the most monetary relief for investors.  In 2024, we recovered over $2.5 billion for investors in securities-related class action cases – more than the next five law firms combined, according to ISS.  

Robbins Geller attorneys represent consumers around the country in a variety of important and unprecedented complex class actions. The Firm was one of the originators of the national opioid litigation, filing among the earliest complaints against the opioid industry defendants. Robbins Geller partners served in leadership positions on multiple multidistrict litigations related to the opioid crisis. The litigations have resulted in settlements disbursing more than $50 billion for affected communities nationwide.

Robbins Geller’s Delaware Practice Group specializes in shareholder challenges against corporate fraud, abuse, self-dealing, and recklessness in Delaware courts. Not only have the Firm’s cases changed the law, they have recovered billions for shareholders and secured corporate reforms to strengthen good corporate governance. The Firm regularly represents investors in challenges to corporate mergers and acquisitions that shortchange shareholders while enriching corporate insiders.

 

Updated Sep 2025

Other offices

San Francisco

  • One Montgomery Street, Suite 1800, CA 94104
    Phone: (415) 288-4545
    Fax: (415) 288-4534

Boca Raton

  • 225 NE Mizner Boulevard, Suite 720, FL 33432
    Phone: (561) 750-3000
    Fax: (561) 750-3364

New York 

  • 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1832
    New York, NY 10170
    Phone: (212) 432-5100

Melville

  • 58 South Service Road, Suite 200, NY 11747
    Phone: (631) 367-7100
    Fax: (631) 367-1173

Nashville

  • 200 31st Avenue North, TN 37203
    Phone: (615) 244-2203
    Fax: (615) 432-2398

Chicago

  • 200 S. Wacker Drive, 31st Floor, 60606 
    Phone: (630) 696-4107    

Jenkintown    

  • 261 Old York Road, Suite 507A, 19046
    Phone: (215) 988-9546    

Washington, D.C.       

  • 906 16th Street N.W., Suite 303, 20006
    Phone: (202) 822-6762      

Wilmington      

  • 1521 Concord Pike , Suite 301, 19803    
    Phone: (302) 467-2660    
Key practice areas
  • Class action
  • Competition/antitrust
  • Plaintiff
  • Product liability and recall
  • Securities
Address:
655 West Broadway, Suite 1900
San Diego, CA 92101
Tel:+1 619 231 1058 Fax:+1 619 231 7423 Web Address:https://www.rgrdlaw.com/
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Linked Reviews
Dispute Resolution
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd maintains a formidable plaintiffs-side litigation practice, distinguished by high-value securities, consumer and shareholder disputes. Its national platform spans California, Florida, New York, Delaware, Tennessee and Illinois, with particularly visible teams in San Diego, San Francisco, Boca Raton and Manhattan.

The firm’s securities practice remains a defining strength. In St. Clair County Employees’ Retirement System v. Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc., a team led by Darren Robbins and Darryl Alvarado secured a proposed $179 million investor recovery shortly before trial. The matter followed victories at dismissal, class certification and summary judgment and represents the second-largest securities class action recovery recorded in the Middle District of Tennessee.

Robbins Geller also demonstrates substantial reach in consumer and public-health litigation. Paul Geller, Mark Dearman and Dory Antullis played leading roles in the nationwide prescription-opiate litigation, where the firm helped obtain a $300 million recovery for third-party payors as part of proceedings that have generated more than $60 billion in settlements. In Russo v. Walgreen Co., Stuart Davidson and Paul Geller led a team that secured a $100 million settlement for consumers and third-party payors following eight years of litigation; Walgreens also agreed to end the challenged prescription program.

The shareholder practice is similarly notable. In Himstreet v. Scharf, David Knotts and Randall Baron were among the partners who helped achieve a $100 million payment to Wells Fargo, the largest direct cash payment to a company in a California state-court derivative action, alongside significant governance and risk-management reforms.

The firm’s bench includes prominent California securities litigators Danielle Myers, Debra Wyman and Jessica Shinnefield, San Francisco-based consumer and securities litigator Aelish Baig, and Boca Raton partners Paul Geller, Dory Antullis, Mark Dearman and Stuart Davidson. Their work reflects a practice capable of combining sustained procedural success with substantial monetary recoveries and broader institutional change.

Updated October 2026
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