Background
Nelson, Robert J. was born on October 20, 1960 in New York, New York, United States.
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Robert J. Nelson
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Cornell University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1982). London School of Economics. New York University School of Law (Juris Doctor, 1987).
Career
Worked at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Limited Liability Partnership. Admitted to the bar, 1987, California and United States. District Court, Central District of California.
1988, United States. District Court, Northern District of California and United States.
Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit. 1995, United States. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Phi Beta Kappa. Order of the Coif. Member, College Scholar Honors Program, Cornell.
Root-Tilden Scholarship Program, New York University School of Law.
Articles Editor, New York University Law Review, 1986-1987. Author: "To Infer or Not to Infer a Discriminary Purpose: Rethinking Equal Protection Doctrine," 61 New York University Law Review 334 (1986). Instructor, Legal Research and Writing, University of California-Hastings College of the Law, 1989-1991.
Faculty Member, Stanford Advocacy Skills Workshop, 1994.
Judicial Clerk to Honorary Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judge, United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1987-1988.
Assistant Federal Public Defender, Northern District of California, 1988-1993. Member: State Bar of California.
Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Lieff, Cabraser & Heimann was founded in 1972 and for the past 25 years has specialized exclusively in litigation involving securities fraud, antitrust, consumer fraud, products liability, toxic claims and environmental issues, employment discrimination, and other mass tort class actions on behalf of plaintiffs throughout the United States. During the past 13 years, the firm has tried and settled approximately 120 class actions involving approximately ten million individuals, resulting in verdicts or settlements of over $6.5 billion. Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein has served as court-appointed Plaintiff Class Counsel in more than 100 certified class actions, including over 50 securities class actions, and is currently serving in that capacity in multi-district and complex federal litigations pending in Alabama, Alaska, California, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming as well as state court litigation in Alabama, California, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.
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Membership
Member, College Scholar Honors Program, Cornell. Root-Tilden Scholarship Program, New York University School of Law. Articles Editor, New York University Law Review, 1986-1987.
