Robert is the co-chair of the firm's securities and financial markets litigation practice area. He focuses his practice primarily on the resolution of complex commercial disputes, many of which have involved investment bankers, brokers/dealers or banks. Bob has acted as lead counsel in the following representative matters:

• Lead counsel for the SIPC Trustee in litigation relating to the largest SIPC proceeding in history, MJK Clearing, Inc. The result was full payment to all creditors, plus interest.  
• Represented Guidant Corporation, Boston Scientific Corporation, and Abbott Laboratories in complex commercial litigation matters related to vascular intervention devices, cardiac rhythm management devices, and related technologies.
• Served on an interim basis as Senior Managing Counsel for a national broker/dealer.  
• Lead counsel for several underwriting syndicates in complex bankruptcy and securities fraud cases involving Bonneville. Pacific Corporation, ultimately resolved through settlement  
• Advised and represented employers, especially in the medical device industry, in numerous non-compete cases in federal and state courts.  Successfully prosecuted several of the leading Minnesota cases enforcing non-competes.
• Lead trial counsel and lead appellate counsel for Minnesota banks in a tax refund case that went through trial, the Minnesota Supreme Court (3 times) and the United States Supreme Court (3 times) and resulted in recoveries to Minnesota banks exceeding $200 million.  
• Lead trial counsel for underwriter of senior housing revenue bonds which went into default, resulting in a so-called "mass action" against the underwriter and others. Successfully obtained dismissal of the plaintiff's claims at trial court, affirmed on appeal.  
• Counsel for underwriters relating to claims arising out of the bankruptcy or reorganziations of several sub-prime auto lenders.  
• Lead counsel for one of several broker/dealers who sold single-premium deferred annuities issued by a major insurance firm which later went into bankruptcy.  
• Counsel for directors and officers named in securities cases involving a variety of different businesses from restaurants to golf teaching aids. 
• Lead trial for large institutional investor suing Minnesota counties and municipalities on defaulted housing bonds and obtained from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, a determination that plaintiff may properly pursue securities fraud claims against government entities.