Robert Kaufman has 38 years intensive civil litigation experience in defense of liability claims. He has served as lead counsel in over 100 jury trials and nearly 150 appellate matters (including briefing and arguing such landmark cases as Brown v. Superior Court and Jolly v. Abbott Laboratories, et al., both decided by the California Supreme Court in 1988), as well as Hegyes v. George (California Court of Appeal, 1991). The majority of the balance of his work has been in the areas of product liability and major personal injury defense (including bodily injury allegedly arising from DES, Reyes Syndrome, Bendectin, and asbestos), and insurance law (?Bad Faith?) litigation, primarily representing defendants. This latter experience included being the senior trial attorney on a team representing a target insurer in bad faith cases arising out of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in Southern California. His trial experience has also included litigation of a wide variety of other types of claims, including use of force by peace officers, serious auto accidents, contractual and commercial disputes, premises liability claims, and construction defects.
