Robert L Wise

Practice Areas

Litigation

Commercial Litigation & Business Torts

Products Liability - Consumer & Mechanical

Products Liability - Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices

Motor Vehicle Manufacturers & Distributors

Appellate Practice & Legal Strategies

Class Action & Multi-Claim Litigation

Career

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.

Professional Memberships

Defense Research Institute

Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys

Virginia State Bar Association

Personal

University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, JD, cum laude (1997)

University of Virginia, BS, Architecture (1993)