Bill Robinson, a founding principal of the firm, has more than 25 years of regional and national litigation experience. He has tried cases to verdict in more than a dozen federal and state jurisdictions. Bill concentrates his practice in the areas of products liability, medical malpractice and contract litigation. He has defended a variety of products liability cases involving drugs and medical devices, amassing a wealth of knowledge about many fields of medical science, including epidemiology, pathology, pharmacology, and toxicology. His products liability defense practice also includes industrial and consumer products.

In additional to his traditional litigation defense practice, Bill has a unique practice specialty – National Coordinating Defense and Trial Counsel. As national defense and trial counsel for large corporations engaged in complex litigation, he develops a team of expert witnesses, manages local counsel and serves as lead counsel for mediations and trials. As part of his national defense strategy, he heads a team of experienced lawyers and paralegals that collect and manage large amounts of corporate documents. Bill’s extensive experience managing document collections established the firm as a leader in the support and information management industry, especially in the areas of electronic discovery, document review and production, and document depository management.

PRACTICE AREAS
• National Coordinating Defense and Trial Counsel
• Products Liability
• Medical Malpractice
• Contract Litigation

NOTABLE ENGAGEMENTS
• National defense and trial counsel for Playtex Products, Inc., in Toxic Shock Syndrome litigation since 1986
• National defense and trial counsel for Alphapharma, USPD, Inc., a generic drug manufacturer, in the phenylpropanolamine litigation
• Coordinator for multiple document review and production projects for Johnson & Johnson and its affiliates, including Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical and Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
• National defense and trial counsel for Ingersoll-Rand Company, in defense of road construction equipment in the 1990s
• National defense and trial counsel for BREED Technologies, Inc. in defense of automobile air bag sensor cases in the 1990s
• National defense and trial counsel for Iolab Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary and manufacturer of intraocular lenses from 1983-1990.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
• Federal Court Rules Virginia Law Allows Evidence of Non-Use of Seat Belt, U. Rich. L. Rev., (1978).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Virginia State Bar
• Virginia Bar Association
• Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• Defense Research Institute
• Virginia Association of Defense Counsel
• Association of Managing Counsel

EDUCATION
• J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 1974
Order of the Coif
Vanderbilt Law Review, Editorial Staff
• M.A., University of Colorado, 1967
• B.A., Vanderbilt University, 1966

LICENSURE AND ADMISSIONS
• Virginia State Bar, 1974
• District of Columbia Bar, 1997
• All United States District Courts in Virginia
• United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and Eighth Circuits