Profile

Robert Addison is Buchalter's General Counsel and serves on the firm's Board of Directors. 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.


Bar Admissions

California

Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Education
Loyola Law School

Loyola Marymount University

Areas of Practice

  • Appellate Law
  • Class Actions
  • e-Discovery
  • Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Litigation
  • Real Estate
  • Trust and Estate Litigation
  • White Collar & Investigations

Professional Career



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