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Robert J. Gilbertson


Practice Groups

Experience

  • Practice focuses on trials, arbitrations, and appeals of civil disputes.  He has personally handled litigation, tried cases, and/or argued appeals in 23 states around the country.
  • Represents clients in commercial litigation involving patent infringement, antitrust, insurance, fraud, unfair competition, business torts, and products liability.
  • Represents patent holders in federal district courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission in actions to enforce patents in a wide variety of areas of technology.  He regularly handles Markman hearings, works with key expert witnesses, and serves as lead trial counsel.
  • Defended clients named as defendants in over two dozen putative class actions filed in state and federal courts around the United States.
  • In any potential dispute, works closely with the client to develop the relevant facts and law quickly so that our side defines the playing field and the client can make strategic decisions on an informed basis.  We build trust with witnesses, implement an effective and efficient discovery plan, and, starting from the moment we begin working on a case, focus on a central theme and prepare for trial.
  • Chairs the firm's Pro Bono Committee.  Handles pro bono asylum cases for The Advocates for Human Rights and serves on a steering committee for that organization's Refugee & Immigrant Program.  Leads a team of firm attorneys who take asylum related caess to trial and who received volunteer awards from The Advocates for Human Rights in 1998 and 2004.  Represented the plaintiff in Hassan v. Reno, a 2000 case involving a constitutional challenge to the scope of the government's power to deport.  Received the firm's annual pro bono award in 2003.

Other Experience

  • Taught Legal Writing and Advocacy at the University of Michigan Law School (1990-91)

Recognition

  • Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Annual Pro Bono Award (2003)
  • Named a "Rising Star" and a "Super Lawyer" by Minnesota Law & Politics**
  • Volunteer Award, The Advocates for Human Rights (1998)
**Being named to the list or receiving the award is not intended and should not be viewed as comparative to other lawyers or to create an expectation about results that might be achieved in a future matter.

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • ABA Section of Property Insurance Law Committee, Vice-Chair
  • ABA Section of Business Litigation Committee, Chair
  • ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section
  • ABA Section of Antitrust Law
  • ABA Section of Litigation
  • Federal Bar Association
  • Minnesota State Bar Association

Bar Admissions

  • Minnesota
  • U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota

Education

  • University of Michigan Law School, J.D., cum laude (1991)
  • Carleton College, B.A., cum laude (1988)

Books and Articles

  • Recent Developments in Business Torts Law
    Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (Winter 2003)
  • Recent Developments in Business Torts Law
    Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (Winter 2002)
  • For Spoliating Parties, Courts Don't Spare the Rod
    National Law Journal (September 8, 1997)

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