Current Role
  • Of Counsel, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
  • Practice primarily focuses on identifying and developing securities and derivative actions
Experience
  • Prior to joining Hagens Berman, he worked as a partner at law firms practicing primarily in securities and derivative litigation. Rob also owned his own firm within the same practice areas.
  • While in law school, Rob interned with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and worked for two prominent securities class action firms.
  • Before attending law school, Rob worked for several years as an institutional sales trader for a boutique Wall Street investment bank where he specialized in analyzing and trading bank-issued securities with the firm’s institutional investor clients.
Notable Cases

Matters on which Rob has worked and helped investors, corporations and a bankruptcy trustee to obtain significant recoveries include the following:

  • In re Equitec Rollup Litigation, No. C-90-2064 (N.D. Cal.)
  • In re Prison Realty Securities Litigation, No. 3:99-0452 (M.D. Tenn.
  • In re Digex, Inc. Shareholders Litigation, C.A. No. 18336 (Del. Ch.)
  • Isco v. Kraemer, No. CV 95-08941 (Super. Ct., Maricopa Co., Ariz.
  • Saito v. McKesson HBOC, Inc., No. 376, 2001 (Del.)
  • Saito v. McCall (Del. Ch.) Scheonfeld, et al. v. XO Communications, Inc., No. 01-018358 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., Nassau County)
  • In re Salomon Analyst Litigation (S.D.N.Y.) Hermerding v. Tripathi, et al., Adv. No. 09-5004 (Bankr. N.D. Cal.)
Personal Insight

Rob’s interests include motorcycling, hiking, his wife-imposed sous chef duties (she wasn’t wild about Rob’s fried avocados) and frequent visits to family in northern Germany.