Robert C. Phelps Walnut Creek, California
Robert C. Phelps is a 1982 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he served as a member of the Minnesota Law Review. He became a partner in Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in 1995. From 2000 to 2003, he was a partner in the San Francisco office of Skjerven Morrill, LLP. He returned to Pillsbury as a partner from 2003 to 2010, and joined Glynn & Finley as Of Counsel in March 2010. He specializes in complex commercial litigation and business counseling, including antitrust, franchise, marketing and distribution, insurance coverage and regulation, oil and gas and business torts. Mr. Phelps has extensive arbitration, jury and bench trial experience in both federal and state courts. He has also handled appellate matters in state and federal courts, up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Litigation
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Business Counseling
- Commercial
- Antitrust
- Franchise
- Marketing & Distribution
- Insurance Coverage and Regulation
- Oil & Gas
- Eminent Domain
- California, 1982
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1982
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1984
- U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1984
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2000
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1984
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2000
- University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
1982
J.D. Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Law Review:
Minnesota Law Review, Member
- Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota,
1979
B.A. Major: Political Science and Speech Communications
- California Voters Limit Private Enforcement of Unfair Competition Law, November 4, 2004
- The Discoverability and Admissibility of Electronic Evidence, Continuing Education of the Bar, May, 1999
- Business and Professions Code Section 17200: Taking a 'Fairness' Case to Judgment, Competition, Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall, 1999
- State Bar of California
- Member
- San Francisco Bar Association
- Member
- Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Partner,
1995
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1999
- Skjerven, Morrill LLP, Partner,
2000
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2003
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Partner,
2003
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2010
- Phi Beta Kappa
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