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Robins Kaplan LLP is among the nation’s premier trial law firms, with more than 250 attorneys in eight major cities. Our attorneys litigate, mediate, and arbitrate client disputes, always at-the-ready for an ultimate courtroom battle. When huge forces are at play, major money is at stake, or rights are being trampled, we help clients cut through complexity, get to the heart of the problem, and win what matters most.
We are clearly focused on business results for our clients. We achieve landmark triumphs and drive thousands of other cases to resolution before they ever hit the courtroom or the front page. From Big Tobacco to Kraft v. Starbucks, Bhopal, and the World Trade Center—we have changed law, business, and society for the better by redefining what’s possible.
Intellectual Property and Technology: Our Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Group earned global recognition for its long history of extraordinary courtroom victories, IP asset monetization, and innovation defense. Some of the largest multinationals, most-innovative start-ups, and many individuals from virtually every industry and walk of life have chosen us to help settle disputes both in and out of the courtroom because of our clear focus on achieving business results for them. Our attorneys have had multiple IP enforcement efforts on behalf of plaintiffs where revenues in each exceeded $100 million, and we have also successfully defended hundreds of millions of dollars of technology and brand investment.
Complex Business Litigation:
Our business litigation attorneys bring best-of-class plaintiff and defense strategies to the table. At the core of our legal strategy is a track record for analyzing complex legal and business challenges and foreseeing their outcomes. We know that all litigation comes with inherent risk, and we partner with you to understand the immediate and long-term business needs, then craft a combined litigation and business strategy designed to meet your company’s best interests.
Insurance and Catastrophic Loss:
At Robins Kaplan LLP, our insurance lawyers handle complex, high-exposure insurance, reinsurance, and recovery claim disputes. We have a nuanced understanding of the industry’s unique demands built on decades of insurance representations. Our record includes litigation successes for insurance industry clients in state and federal courts, arbitrations, reference and appraisals, and mediations. We also offer clients practical, results-focused guidance and advice. No matter the case size, the depth of our experience litigating and managing high-exposure, complex disputes drives our effectiveness on our clients’ behalf and results in the delivery of efficient, client-centered case management practices and procedures.
Last Updated September 2019
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Robins Kaplan is one of the larger and more comprehensive plaintiff shops in the country, with eight US offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley, Sioux Falls, Bismarck, Naples and its home base in Minneapolis. “Top-notch all around - strategy, efficiency, legal acumen, overall wise counsel” declares a client. Another client voices, “They are strong litigators, serious lawyers, and deeply knowledgeable about antitrust and class-action litigation,” adding, “They are very skilled, sophisticated and practical. They know the law well and are good in court.”
The Minneapolis headquarters are home to a robust group of trial lawyers. Craig Wildfang is a new addition to the firm's list of star litigators. He is the co-chair of the antitrust and trade regulation group where he frequently represents clients in civil antitrust actions. He and Thomas Undlin, an authority on business disputes, served as co-lead counsel in a multidistrict litigation for a class of over seven million U.S. merchants who accept Visa and Mastercard credit cards and debit cards for the purchase of goods and services. The defendants include Visa and Mastercard, and major card-issuing banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo and Capital One. In September 2018, the parties reached a $6.26 billion settlement for plaintiffs—the largest known settlement of a private antitrust case in the 120-year history of the Sherman Act. This case concludes more than a decade of litigation over an innovative theory that the organizational structure of Visa and Mastercard, and the voluminous rules they require retailers to follow, are anticompetitive in nature. The preliminary approval of the settlement was granted in January 2019.
Fellow partner Ronald Schutz has significant trial experience where he has obtained favorable multi-million dollar jury verdicts for numerous clients. He represented celebrity chef Chloe Coscarelli in a suit filed before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The suit alleges that former business partners ESquared Hospitality and its restaurant group BC Hospitality Group have exploited Coscarelli's name, fame, and image for their own benefit after an arbitration proceeding removed Coscarelli from the restaurant operations in 2017. The suit alleges copyright and trademark infringement, federal unfair competition, unjust enrichment, and violations of California's business and professions code, among other claims. While the California suit was voluntarily dismissed, another lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York, which added several more claims in addition to the claims included in the original complaint.
New York litigator Hollis Salzman, one of Benchmark's Top 250 Women in Litigation, was co-lead counsel in an unprecedented multidistrict litigation where nearly $1.3 billion in settlements was secured for victims of a massive web of anticompetitive conspiracies throughout the auto parts industry. The civil litigation stems from the largest criminal antitrust investigation in U.S. history. It has encompassed 41 separate actions against more than 160 defendants, each involving different auto parts, different anticompetitive agreements, different conspirators and different timelines. The firm represents "end-payor" plaintiffs—consumers and businesses that purchased auto parts, and cars incorporating them, subject to price-fixing agreements. The cumulative settlement figure, which now amounts to almost $1.3 billion, is believed to be the largest indirect purchaser recovery in U.S. history.
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Arenz, Patrick | Future Star, 40 & Under Hot List 2019 | Intellectual Property |
Fahrenkrog, Aaron | 40 & Under Hot List 2019 | Intellectual Property |
Holdreith, Jake | Local Litigation Star | Intellectual Property, White Collar Crime |
Lerner, Kellie | Future Star | |
Lockner, Anne | Local Litigation Star | Antitrust, Energy and Natural Resources, General Commercial, Intellectual Property, Product Liability |
Messerly, Chris | Local Litigation Star | Mass Tort, Product Liability |
Salzman, Hollis | National Practice Area Star, 2019 Top 250 Women in Litigation, Local Litigation Star | Antitrust |
Schutz, Ronald | Local Litigation Star, National Practice Area Star | Energy and Natural Resources, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Product Liability |
Slaughter, Stacey | Local Litigation Star | Antitrust, General Commercial |
Undlin, Thomas | Local Litigation Star | Antitrust, Intellectual Property |
Wildfang, Craig | Local Litigation Star | Antitrust |
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