Hamilton, Robert W.

Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Bob Hamilton has extensive experience in general commercial litigation in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts. Over the past two decades, Bob has litigated a wide variety of matters in some of the nation's largest and most complex chapter 11 reorganization cases, including Dana Corporation, FLYi, Tower Automotive, Breed Technologies, HQ Global, National Century Financial Enterprises, Kmart, World Kitchen, NextWave, Loewen, Federated Department Stores, Cardinal Industries, and Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation.

Bob also has extensive experience in First Amendment and media cases, including libel, privacy, public access, copyright, and trademark litigation. Media clients he has represented include CompuServe, AOL, ICANN, Gannett, Nextel, Multimedia Entertainment, Post-Newsweek Stations, Sally Jessy Raphael, Trinity Broadcasting, the Motion Picture Association of America, The Washington Post, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio magazine, Cleveland magazine, WBNS-TV, the Marietta Times, the Chillicothe Gazette, the Celina Daily Standard, the National Enquirer, Playboy magazine, and Birdwatcher's Digest. Prior to joining Jones Day, he practiced at the firm of Williams & Connolly from 1984 to 1987.

Bob represented CompuServe in Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc., 776 F. Supp. 135 (S.D.N.Y. 1991), the first case that addressed the liability of an online service provider for unlawful third-party content on its service. He also represented CompuServe in CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, 962 F. Supp. 1015 (S.D. Ohio 1997), the first case to establish an OSP's right under the common law of trespass to a court order enjoining a defendant from sending spam to the OSP's subscribers. Bob was featured as one of four leading e-commerce "Pioneers" by IP World in December 2000.

Bob is featured in the 2007 edition of Ohio Super Lawyers and has taught Internet law as an adjunct professor at both The Ohio State University College of Law and Capital University Law School. He is the author of the chapter on defamation in a leading Internet law treatise: K. Stuckey, Internet and Online Law (Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1996). Bob also authored "Liability for Third-Party Content on the Internet," 8 Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal 733 (Summer 1998) and coauthored "Tangled Web: Personal Jurisdiction and the Internet," 24 Litigation 27 (Winter 1998). He is a member of the bar of the U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Second, and Sixth Circuits.

Areas of Practice

• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Trial Practice
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Distressed Company Litigation
• Official Unsecured Creditors' Committees
• Other Significant Creditor Representations
• Bankruptcy & Insolvency Litigation

Representative Cases

• AEP receives $263 million settlement after prevailing on breach of 20-year power contract claim , (2008)
• AHERF creditors' committee pursues claims against certain officers and trustees of health care system
• Allegheny Health, nation's largest nonprofit healthcare company, files chapter 11 cases , (2009)
• Cardinal Industries files for chapter 11
• Chrysler sold to Fiat-led "New Chrysler" after historic court proceedings , (2009)
• Dana Corporation successfully reorganizes in U.S. and U.K. in "Deal of the Year" , (2009)
• Federated Department Stores and affiliates reorganize in chapter 11 , (2009)
• Financial Guaranty Insurance Company completes reinsurance transaction with MBIA Insurance , (2009)
• FLYi Inc. and Independence Air file for bankruptcy with $455 million in debt , (2009)
• HQ Global Holdings and its affiliates file for chapter 11 involving more than $500 million in debt
• Kmart Corporation Financial Institutions' Committee is appointed , (2009)
• Loewen Group International and 870 affiliated entities file for chapter 11 , (2009)
• Metaldyne files for bankruptcy protection
• National Century Financial Enterprises files for bankruptcy with over $3 billion in debt
• National Century Financial Enterprises litigates chapter 11 issues , (2009)
• Nextel and Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association successfully challenge Bankruptcy Court rulings regarding PCS licenses auctioned by FCC
• Official Creditors Committee of AHERF seeks judicial declaration that D&O insurance polices not subject to rescission by carriers
• Riverside acquires business unit of Baldor Electric Company
• Tower Automotive retired employees reach settlement with company
• World Kitchen goes into bankruptcy

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Law, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Class Actions, Collections & Repossessions, Collections & Repossessions, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Leasing, Complex Litigation, Consumer Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Dissolution, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Foreclosures, Garnishment, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Reorganizations, Reorganizations & Restructuring, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Workouts

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Harvard University
• Northwestern University

Published Works

• The United States-European Union Safe Harbor Agreement: Should Your Company Climb Aboard?, 2001
• When Chat Rooms Turn Ugly, The Daily Reporter, Business Law Journal supplement, 1998
• Liability for Third-Party Content on the Internet, 8 Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal 733, 1998
• Tangled Web: Personal Jurisdiction and the Internet, Litigation, Vol. 24, No. 2, p. 27, 1998
• K. Stuckey, Internet and Online Law, Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1996

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325 John H. McConnell Boulevard
Suite 600
Columbus, OH 43216-5017

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