Robins Kaplan LLP

Chairman and Managing Partner: Anthony A. Froio

Number of Lawyers: 200

Number of Other Fee-Earners: 70

Practice Areas and Offices

Practice Areas 

Business Litigation

Insurance and Catastrophic Loss

Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation

Mass Tort

Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury

Offices 

Bismarck: 1207 West Divide Avenue, Suite 200

Boston: 800 Boylston Street, Suite 2500

Los Angeles: 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 2800

Minneapolis: 800 LaSalle Avenue, Suite 2800

New York: 1325 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 2601

Silicon Valley: 555 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 310

Sioux Falls: 150 E 4th Place, Suite 704

Main Areas of Practice

Business Litigation 

With lawyers across all seven offices, the Robins Kaplan Business Litigation Group includes a range of practices, including antitrust and trade regulation, health care litigation, financial markets litigation, government and internal investigations, and American Indian law and policy. Our clients include an enviable sampling of Fortune 500 regulars along with Midwest multi-nationals, technology superstars (and iconoclasts), and mom-and-pop success stories. With high rankings from Chambers, the firm's Antitrust and Trade Regulation Group is one of few national practices to have obtained landmark successes on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, including in several of the most significant antitrust cases ever litigated.

• Obtained a $6.26 billion settlement, the largest known settlement of a private antitrust action in the 120-year history of the Sherman Act, in In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation
• Obtained partial settlements surpassing $1.2 billion to date in In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation
• Recovered over $1.2 billion for plaintiffs in In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation
• Obtained nearly $600 million in settlements in In re Kirk Dahl, et al. v. Bain Capital Partners, LLC, et al.

Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation 

With approximately 50 lawyers in Minnesota, New York, and California, the Robins Kaplan Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Group has a long history of extraordinary courtroom victories, IP asset monetization, and innovation defense. The firm has led multiple IP enforcement efforts on behalf of plaintiffs where revenues in each exceeded $100 million and has successfully defended hundreds of millions of dollars of technology and brand investment.

• Obtained jury verdict of $520.6 million for infringement of patents covering web browser technology in Eolas v. Microsoft Corporation
• Recovered over $500 million in settlements for owner of patents covering microprocessor technologies in Intergraph v. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, and others
• Obtained $13.5 million in settlements for owner of trade secrets relating to automated furniture products in Megdal Associates LLC v. La-Z-Boy, Inc.
• Obtained complete defense verdict from unanimous three member panel in $100 million international arbitration alleging breach of license agreement in Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy v. Phillips Beverage Company

Insurance and Catastrophic Loss 

The Insurance and Catastrophic Loss group consists of lawyers in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, and California, the Robins Kaplan Insurance and Catastrophic Loss Group represents leading U.S. and international commercial property, liability, and fidelity/surety insurance companies. Robins Kaplan has rewritten the law and established precedent, beginning over 70 years ago in Hayward v. State Farm. The firm has represented clients in complex litigation related to substantial loss events such as flooding in the Chicago Loop, the Northridge California Earthquake, the La Grange Georgia Fire, and Hurricane Katrina.

Mass Tort 

Our team of experienced trial lawyers practice in the Robins Kaplan Mass Tort Group.

• Obtained $7 billion settlement from the tobacco industry for the State of Minnesota and health care insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
• Reached $589 million settlement in landmark national opioid litigation on behalf of 28 tribal nations
• Obtained jury verdict of over $8 million for plaintiffs in first Mirapex products liability bellwether trial

Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice 

The Robins Kaplan Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Group, in addition to a team of investigators and medical advisors, has decades of experience trying some of the most complicated personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice cases.

• Helped recover over $77 million for those injured and those who lost loved ones in the 2007 I-35W Bridge collapse in downtown Minneapolis
• Obtained $20.6 million jury verdict, the largest wrongful death verdict of any kind in Minnesota, for the family of a 30-year-old woman who died of sepsis three days after giving birth to her first child
• Obtained $25 million in an airplane crash case that killed Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, and four other passengers on the plane
• Obtained $15.4 million settlement for a 32-year-old male who suffered an industrial accident that left him with third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body