Robert A Julian

Practice Areas

Robert Julian has more than 40 years of experience resolving complex litigation involving multiple parties and claims. Robert’s experience includes mass torts and fire litigation, complex contract disputes, unfair competition and trade secret litigation and breach of fiduciary duty cases and related corporate investigations, with an emphasis on such cases in an insolvency or company restructure setting. In the past several years, Robert has successfully defended more than $1 billion in five defense cases, recovered more than $1 billion in plaintiffs’ cases and led the mass tort fire claimants committee that recovered $13.5 billion for victims in the historic PG&E bankruptcy case.

He has substantial experience with issues that arise in troubled company settings, including fiduciary duty and agency disputes; insider control; director, officer and professional liability claims and related authority issues; direct vs. derivative shareholder claim ownership disputes; treatment of insurance coverage; fraudulent and preferential conveyances; joint venture disputes; pension claim disputes; disguised loan and other property of the bankruptcy estate disputes; alter ego and equitable remedies; lender-debtor disputes; mandatory and equitable subordination claims; right to jury trial and bankruptcy jurisdiction battles; resolution of plaintiff claims in bankruptcy; withdrawal of the reference; centralization of tort claims in the bankruptcy and district courts; abstention over claims in favor of state court; and insurance receivership disputes; and bank and bank holding company failures.