Lyle Roberts

Practice Areas

Lyle Roberts is a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice. Lyle represents companies, officers, and directors in securities cases and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement matters throughout the United States. He also conducts corporate internal investigations and counsels clients with respect to securities regulatory issues.

Lyle represented Mark Cuban in obtaining a complete victory against the SEC in Cuban’s closely watched insider trading case. He also represents, or has represented, a number of prominent companies in the defense of securities class actions, including Paramount Global, PayPal, Opendoor, Lumen Technologies/CenturyLink, Northrop Grumman, Fidelity National Financial, and Lumber Liquidators.

Lyle is recognized as a Band 1 securities litigator by Chambers USA and a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation. He is widely published on securities law issues, including in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, National Law Journal, and Law360. Lyle also is the author of the well-known blog, The 10b-5 Daily, which tracks key developments in securities litigation, and is the co-chairman of the annual Practicing Law Institute securities litigation program. Lyle co-edits “Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide,” the leading treatise in this area of the law. Finally, he frequently submits amicus briefs in prominent securities litigation cases on behalf of the Washington Legal Foundation, including recent briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in the Goldman Sachs, Emulex, Halliburton, and ANZ Securities cases.

Career

University of Chicago Law School: J.D.; Johns Hopkins University: M.A.; Johns Hopkins University: B.A.

Admissions: District of Columbia; Maryland; New York; Virginia

Personal

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