Robert M. Foote

  • Partner

Robert M. Foote

  • Partner

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Practice Areas:

  • Class Action Litigation

Biography

Coming from a family of attorneys, Robert M. Foote’s career path could be viewed as predetermined back to the days he followed his father into courtrooms. “I never thought I’d do anything else,” Foote said.

Born in Massachusetts in 1954, Foote earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1976 and his law degree in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1979 and has spent more than four decades as an accomplished trial lawyer who has collected in excess of a billion dollars for his clients.

Education

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
    • Juris Doctor – 1979
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • B.A. – 1976
    • Honors: cum laude

Bar Admission

  • Illinois, 1979
  • Wisconsin, 1986

Published Works

  • “Legal Oros other Lawyers Would Call if They need any Special Help”, West Suburban Living, January/February, 2004
  • “Raising the Bar”

Representative Cases

  • Lead Counsel, Tipsword v. I.F.D.A. Services, Inc., et al., Case No. 09-CV-00390(GPM) (S.D. Ill.)
  • Class Counsel, Westgate Ford Truck Sales v. Ford Motor Company, Case No. 02-CV-483526 (Ohio Cir. Ct.)
  • Co-Lead Counsel, Havlish v. bin Laden, Case No. 03-MDL- 1570 (S.D. NY), September 11, 2001
  • Lead Class Counsel, Lee v. Allstate, Case No. 03-LK-127 (Ill. Cir. Ct.)

Classes & Seminars

  • Lectures, Class Action Litigation
  • Lectures, Complex Commercial Litigation
  • Lectures, Personal Injury Litigation
  • Lectures, Product Defect and Product Liability Litigation
  • Lectures, Discovery Issues in Litigation
  • Lectures, Damage Issues in Litigation

Professional Associations

  • Illinois State Bar Association, Member
  • American Bar Association, Member
  • Kane County Bar Association, Member
  • Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Member
  • American Association for Justice, Member
  • Kane County Bar Association, Past Director
  • Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Member, Board of Manager
  • In Re Text Messaging Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1997, No. 08-CV-7082 (N.D. Ill.), Steering Committee
  • In Re Managed Care Litigation, MDL No. 1334, Case No. 04-CV-21589 (M.D. Fla.), Steering Committee
  • In Re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1663, Civ. No. 04-518(FSH) (D.N.J.), Court-Appointed Executive Committee