Background
Labate, Robert J. was born on August 10, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Robert J. Labate
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Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, 1975). Case Western Reserve University (Juris Doctor, 1983).
Career
Worked at Defrees & Fiske (Chicago, Illinois) specializing in General Practice including Business, Corporate Finance, Utilities and Energy, Tax, Employee Benefits, Employment Law, General Civil and Personal Injury Litigation, Copyright and Trademark Protection, Antitrust, Transportation, Trade Association, Health Care and Hospital Law, Trusts and Estates, Real Estate and Construction and Environmental Law. Admitted to the bar, 1983, Illinois and United States. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar.
1995, New Mexico.
Associate Editor, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 1982-1983.
Company-Author (with Gerald F. Munitz): "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly-Recent Controversies in Bankruptcy Law," 65th Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (1991). "Introduction to Leveraged Buyouts and Fraudulent Transfer Law," Chicago Bar Association Securities Law Seminar (1991).
"Serial Chapter 11 Filings and Related Issues," Advanced Bankruptcy Procedures Seminar (1990). Author: "RICO-Seventh Circuit Review," 62 Chirurgical-Kent L. Review
597 (1986); "RICO in the Seventh Circuit: Criminal Shadows on Civil Litigation," 73 Illinois.B.J. (June 1985).
Member: Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Founded in 1884, Defrees & Fiske provides general and specialized legal services. Our clients include large, publicly-held corporations, but we also often serve as general counsel to closely-held companies that have no in-house legal staff, and as legal advisor to individuals.
Our areas of specialization include corporate, litigation, tax, financing, regulatory, real estate, and estate planning.
We are preeminent in such specialized areas as public utility law, where we historically have represented gas, electric and water utilities, pipeline companies, and customers of utilities in connection with utility and regulatory matters. Hospital law, where we represent hospitals and other providers of medical care.
Transportation law, where we represent several railroads, trucking companies, transportation intermediaries and shippers. And the representation of trade associations.
Our firm"s litigation, antitrust and trademark protection expertise has been utilized by prominent members of the oil, motion picture, designer label and franchise industries.
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Member: Illinois State and American Bar Associations.
