Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP specializes in complex litigation representing plaintiffs in securities fraud, antitrust, breach of fiduciary duty, consumer fraud, and privacy cases. The Firm’s unparalleled experience and capabilities in these fields are based on the talents of its attorneys, who have successfully prosecuted thousands of class action lawsuits. Robbins Geller has achieved success across several different, entirely distinct practice areas in a way that few firms have in any one practice area– from antitrust to consumer protection to shareholder litigation.
The Firm is widely recognized as a leading law firm worldwide. Judges have described Robbins Geller as one of the most formidable securities law firms in the country. With 200 lawyers in 10 offices nationwide, the Firm has the resources, experience, and tenacity to achieve superior results.
The Firm’s attorneys have obtained many of the largest recoveries in history: the largest consumer class action recovery ($17+ billion in Volkswagen); the largest securities class action recovery ($7.2 billion in Enron); the largest antitrust class action recovery ($5.5 billion in Visa/Mastercard); the largest securities class action recovery following trial ($1.575 billion in HSBC/Household International); the largest pharmaceutical securities class action recovery ($1.21 billion in Valeant Pharmaceuticals); the largest cash recovery in a stockholder merger & acquisition case in the Delaware Court of Chancery ($1 billion in Dell Technologies); the largest stock option backdating recovery ($925 million in UnitedHealth Group); the largest securities fraud class action recovery in the Ninth Circuit in the last decade ($809.5 million in Twitter); the largest opt-out (non-class) securities action recovery ($657 million in WorldCom); the largest biometric class action settlement ($650 million in Facebook); the largest RMBS purchaser class action recovery ($500 million in Countrywide); and the largest personal contributions by individual defendants in a securities class action recovery ($237.5 million of $1.025 billion total recovery in American Realty Capital Properties).
Robbins Geller was named one of the top plaintiff firms in the United States by Institutional Shareholder Services Securities Class Action Services, recovering $1.36 billion for investors in securities-related class action settlements in 2023. The Firm topped the ISS SCAS rankings for total number of investor recoveries, with ten more investor recoveries in 2023 than the next ranked law firm.
Robbins Geller attorneys represent consumers around the country in a variety of important and unprecedented complex class actions. The Firm was one of the originators of the national opioid litigation, filing among the earliest complaints against the opioid industry defendants. Robbins Geller partners served in leadership positions on multiple multidistrict litigations related to the opioid crisis. The litigations have resulted in settlements disbursing more than $50 billion for affected communities nationwide.
Robbins Geller’s Delaware Practice Group specializes in shareholder challenges against corporate fraud, abuse, self-dealing, and recklessness in Delaware courts. Not only have the Firm’s cases changed the law, they have recovered billions for shareholders and secured corporate reforms to strengthen good corporate governance. The Firm regularly represents investors in challenges to corporate mergers and acquisitions that shortchange shareholders while enriching corporate insiders.
