Robins Kaplan

Robins Kaplan manages eight US offices in

Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley, Sioux Falls, Bismarck, and Naples, Florida in addition to its home base in Minneapolis, qualifying it as one of the larger and more comprehensive plaintiff shops. “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.” Anne Lockner, a partner in the firm's business litigation department and Co-Chair of its Retail Industry Group in Minneapolis, has handled cases regarding a number of different industries, including retail, manufacturing, financial, construction, food and beverage, technology, and logistics. Martin Lueck has for 25 years successfully tried cases on both the defendant and plaintiff side of the courtroom in the areas of intellectual property, antitrust, commercial, and business litigation. He is currently one of two key partners defending grocery wholesaler Supervalu in an antitrust class-action litigation by grocery retailers in 13 states alleging that Supervalu and another wholesaler conspired to allocate territories and customers in the Midwest and New England regions in violation of the Sherman Act. Chair of the firm's Business Litigation department, Christopher Madel has extensive experience in representing clients in minority-shareholder disputes, billion-dollar claims in connection with major corporate acquisitions, alleged theft of trade secrets, computer hacking, corporate espionage, allegations of attorney malpractice and misconduct, and defenses relating to alleged regulatory violations and white-collar crimes. Chair of the firm's National IP and Technology Litigation Group, managing partner of its New York office, and member of its Executive Board, Ronald Schutz specializes in intellectual property, business, and health care litigation. Schultz is involved in a suit representing a well-known child development expert who had pitched her uniquely original material and characters to top studio executives from 2005-09 for purposes of developing an animated series focused on emotional intelligence in children. The suit, filed against the Walt Disney Company and Pixar, is over allegations that they misappropriated the central concept and characters behind the animated hit movie "Inside Out." Kathleen Flynn Peterson devotes her practice to representing people dealing with pain and suffering in medical malpractice and personal injury disputes. She recently represented a family of a teen who went into cardiac arrest during a dental surgery in 2015 and later died. A $2.06 million settlement with the oral surgeon who performed the procedure was reached. Stacey Slaughter works out of both the New York and Minneapolis offices on commercial and business disputes. She is part of the lead team representing Principal Financial Group and Principal Funds as plaintiffs in two direct action cases in the Southern District of New York against multiple bank defendants, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, RBS, UBS, Barclays, and Citibank, resulting from their alleged suppression of LIBOR target submissions. The Principal entities’ complaints allege antitrust violations, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment, among other claims and is valued at more than $100 million. She also represents Summit Credit Union, State Employees’ Credit Union, Washington Gas Light Credit Union, and Wisconsin Credit Union League in a class action lawsuit against Equifax over its unprecedented security failure, known to many as the largest data breach in the history of the financial services industry. Antitrust authority Hollis Salzman joined the firm recently from her former firm of plaintiff class-action shop Labaton Sucharow. “Hollis Salzman is legit!” professed a peer in reference to the unanimously celebrated antitrust litigator. “She has been an adversary on a number of cases and I have worked with her on ABA committees. She is smart [and] combines her intelligence with reasonableness and common sense.” Salzman is co-lead counsel on behalf of a proposed class of end-payor plaintiffs who purchased or leased new vehicles containing various price-fixed automotive parts. The multidistrict litigation stems from the largest global criminal antitrust investigation in history. In this unprecedented MDL end-payor plaintiffs allege that defendants participated in extensive conspiracies to fix the prices charged for dozens of automotive parts. Since 2017, the legal team has secured more than $380 million of the total recoveries in the MDL. The cumulative settlement figure, which now exceeds $1.07 billion, is one of the largest amounts that end payors have ever recovered in a U.S. antitrust lawsuit. She also represents serves on the executive committee in a class action which alleges that defendants Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics colluded with Immucor to raise prices on traditional blood reagents, which are used to test blood before transfusions and donations. The case has been scheduled for trial.