Robert L Wise
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Partner
Rob focuses his practice on appeals and advanced motions, product liability defense, and complex commercial litigation, including class and mass actions. He has experience coordinating the briefing and legal issues strategy for several high-profile class and mass actions, including in ongoing alleged football-concussion-injury litigation, nationwide automotive and vehicle putative class actions, and medical device class and mass actions. Rob’s product liability work focuses primarily on representing manufacturers and businesses in catastrophic personal injury matters around the country.
Rob has also handled appeals before all levels of appellate courts in Virginia in both civil and administrative proceedings and has been involved in appeals throughout the country as lead appellate counsel, on-brief author, and off-brief legal strategy consultant. He has also worked on appeals from the amicus perspective, authoring amicus briefs as well as working with industry and advocacy groups to promote client interests and positions.
Rob is also active in numerous industry and advocacy organizations, and regularly presents on various topics including developments and strategies in appellate and class and mass action litigation.
Education
University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, JD, cum laude (1997)
Champion, Judge John R. Brown National Admiralty Moot Court
Best Petitioner’s Brief, Judge John R. Brown National Admiralty
Moot Court Board
University of Virginia, BS, Architecture (1993)
Admissions
Virginia
Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
Practice Areas
Litigation
Commercial Litigation & Business Torts
Products Liability – Consumer & Mechanical
Products Liability – Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices
Appellate Practice & Legal Strategies
Class Action & Multi-Claim Litigation
Industries
Automobiles & Other Motor Vehicles
Consumer Products & Retail
Manufacturing
Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices