Robert M. Dawson J.D.

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

Bob Dawson has, for over 30 years, handled a wide range of complex business and civil litigation, including the management and trial of a substantial number of matters for financial institutions, the health care industry, and in the labor and employment area, among others.
Bob represents many different types of clients, including large corporations, small companies, public agencies, public officials, and charitable institutions. The subject matter of the cases he has handled have been wide-ranging, including consumer class actions, securities, banking, employment, government, medicine, gaming, science and technology, and entertainment. On behalf of financial institutions, Bob has handled consumer class actions, customer disputes, unfair business practice claims, customer privacy claims, and cases involving bank fraud, lender liability, credit card and ATM disclosure class actions, identity theft, money laundering, grand jury investigations, safe deposit box losses, bank robberies, disclosures to law enforcement, and co-branding agreements. His securities litigation experience includes serving as coordinating counsel on behalf of the carrier providing defenses to the former officers and directors of Columbia Savings & Loan in the consolidated Columbia/Drexel class actions.
Bob's employment litigation experience includes the decertification of a significant wage and hour class action, upheld in a published decision by the California Court of Appeal. In 1996, because of Bob's landmark decision on California summary judgment law, then Governor Pete Wilson requested his support of proposed legislation to reform the California Code of Civil Procedure in this area which included testifying repeatedly before the State Senate Judiciary Committee and State Assembly Judiciary Committee.

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