Robert Addison is Buchalter’s General Counsel and serves as firm-wide co-chair of the litigation practice group. For over thirty years, Robert has been a business litigator representing banks and financial institutions, corporate entities large and small, consumer products companies, and fiduciaries in business litigation matters in both state and federal courts. He has wide-ranging experience in general business and commercial litigation matters, including banking operations, banking and mortgage fraud, corporate litigation arising from the purchase and sale of businesses, partnership and joint venture disputes, corporate trustee litigation, real property disputes, film finance disputes, unfair competition, intellectual property claims, class actions, and provisional remedies, among many others. Mr. Addison is also an experienced appellate lawyer, having successfully handled appeals at all levels, including before the California Supreme Court.
Among the representative litigation matters Mr. Addison has handled are defense of claims for hundreds of millions of dollars arising out of Ponzi and other complex fraud schemes, prosecution of plaintiff’s fraud claims on behalf of financial institutions, prosecution and defense of contractual and partnership claims between corporate entities and their principals, complex litigation representing corporate trustees arising out of management and investment of trust assets, complex real estate litigation, and numerous other complex business litigation matters.
In addition to his role as the Firm’s General Counsel Mr. Addison serves on the firm’s Board of Directors.