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About
Provided by Robert A Sacks
Practice Areas
Litigation, Securities Litigation, Antitrust
Career
Partner since 1990. Responsible for S&C’s litigation practice on the West Coast. Extensive experience representing many of the largest and most influential businesses and prominent individuals in a wide range of complex business disputes. Represents clients in securities and other class action litigation, M&A, antitrust, contracts, corporate governance, and regulatory and internal investigations. Appears in federal/state courts, arbitrations, and proceedings before the SEC and other agencies. In recent years, has tried multiple cases, including several jury trials, non-jury trials, and a regulatory trial before a three-person panel. He also has handled numerous appeals, including in the Ninth, Second, D.C. and Federal Circuits, California Court of Appeals, New York Appellate Division and Delaware Supreme Court. Select clients include Amgen, AT&T, BP, CIM Group, Richard Cohen, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Frank McCourt, Steven Mnuchin, Occidental Petroleum, Pabst Brewing, Dean Spanos, Stifel Financial, Upbound Group, Thomas Weisel and Ziff Davis.
University of Texas Law School (JD, 1982); Harvard University (AB, 1979).
Professional Memberships
Member, California and New York Bars; ABA
Chambers Review
USA
Robert Sacks has attained a sterling reputation for his disputes practice, which sees him employ his well-honed litigation skills in a broad spectrum of commercial claims and securities class actions.
Robert Sacks has attained a sterling reputation for his disputes practice, which sees him employ his well-honed litigation skills in a broad spectrum of commercial claims and securities class actions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"When he gets into the case the entire dynamic changes, we are able to cut to the chase."
"Robert is brilliant, he is practical and bright and quickly gets the big picture of the case."
"He has the ability to quickly sum up and analyze a problem and get to the core of what it's about. A lot of lawyers get lost in the weeds and he's good at figuring out what a case is about and what's needed to resolve it."
"When he gets into the case the entire dynamic changes, we are able to cut to the chase."
"Robert is brilliant, he is practical and bright and quickly gets the big picture of the case."
"He has the ability to quickly sum up and analyze a problem and get to the core of what it's about. A lot of lawyers get lost in the weeds and he's good at figuring out what a case is about and what's needed to resolve it."