Robert F. Lewis

PROFILE

lewis@lbbslaw.com

Practice Areas
Directors and Officers Coverage and Litigation Professional Liability

Founding Partner
Mr. Lewis serves as Chair of the firm-wide Directors and Officers practice group. His practice focuses on complex civil litigation with substantial litigation experience in the areas of:

Directors and Officers Liability
Securities Litigation
Professional Liability

ASSOCIATIONS

American Board of Trial Advocates
International Association of Defense Counsel
Association of Southern California Defense Counsel
American Maritime Association
State Bar Resolution Committee 1976, 1977 and 1978
Delegate to the State Bar 1973-1978
Delegation Executive Committee 1975-1977
Lawyer Delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicical Conference 1990-1993; 1998-2001
American Bar Association
Chancery Club

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Lewis has more than forty years of experience in the insurance defense field with his practice focusing on complex civil litigation with emphasis in the area of directors and officers liability class action security cases as well as professional liability. He has acted as both coverage and monitoring counsel in numerous class action lawsuits and security class action litigation.

AWARDS and publications

D&O Newsletter Summer 2006
Lectured at the Continuing Education of the Bar, USC Law Center - Fourth Annual Corporate Law and Finance Institute, 1976; and at the Continuing Education of the Bar, 13th Annual Federal Practice Institute panel list, June, 1990
"Advising and Defending Corporate Officers and Directors Under the New General Corporate Law" (CEB, 1977)
"Liability Coverage Under the New Securities Laws" USC Law Center 4th Annual Corporate Law and Finance Institute, (1976)

EDUCATION

University of California at Los Angeles, Juris Doctor, 1961
University of California at Los Angeles, Bachelor of Arts, 1958

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EDITORIAL REVIEW

The top advisor to the insurance industry has more than 40 years experience in directors’ and officers’ liability litigation.

— Lawdragon, October 2006

No stranger to multi-million dollar litigation, attorney Robert Lewis represents professionals in claims against them for professional liability. American International Group of Companies (AIG), National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh and the City of Los Angeles have trusted him to help sort out their legal woes. Insurance coverage, securities litigation and legal malpractice are all within Lewis' specialty.

— Lawdragon, March 2006

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