Mittelstaedt, Robert A.
Jones Day
555 California Street
26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 1.415.875.5710 (Business Phone)
Fax: 1.415.875.5700 (Business Fax)
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Websites associated with this firm:http://www.jonesday.comSummary
Current Employment Position(s)
Partner
Lawyer Overview
Bob Mittelstaedt is a trial lawyer with more than 30 years experience in complex commercial cases, including antitrust, unfair business practice, international law claims under the Alien Tort Statute, and employment law. Bob has served as lead trial counsel or national coordinating counsel in state and federal antitrust matters for industries ranging from computer games and gasoline to high-speed internet access and online music stores. He has been responsible for the defense of nationwide class and parens patriae actions and for complex arbitrations, grand jury, and other criminal matters.
Most recently, Bob obtained a defense verdict in a five-week jury trial in a high-profile Alien Tort Statute case in San Francisco federal court that was recognized as the "California Defense Verdict of 2008" by the Daily Journal and for which he received the California Lawyer "Attorney of the Year Award for Litigation." He also is defending Apple in a nationwide class action alleging novel tying violations and Bridgestone Firestone in an Alien Tort Statute case challenging labor practices in Liberia. His other trial experience includes a defense jury verdict in a monopolization case after a three-month trial, a declaratory ruling that Hawaii's rent control law was unconstitutional (later overturned by the Supreme Court), a wrongful death trial in Los Angeles federal court, various jury trials as an acting San Francisco County public defender earlier in his career, and complex commercial arbitrations.
Bob is Partner-in-Charge of the Firm's San Francisco Office. He has served as a director of the Bar Association of San Francisco and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. He has spoken and written on trial practice and civil discovery. Before starting his legal career, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia.
Areas of Practice
- Trial Practice
- Antitrust & Competition Law
- Energy
- Class Action Litigation
- Antitrust Litigation
- Energy Dispute Resolution
Representative Cases
- 9th Circuit affirms prisoners' rights to mail printed from the Internet
- Apple defends against unfair competition and Cartwright Act claims brought in California federal court
- Apple is third party in DRAM litigation
- Bridgestone defeats class certification of Alien Tort Claims Act charges of forced labor on Liberian plantation , (2009)
- Chevron and other oil companies win summary judgment in information-sharing case , (2009)
- Chevron and Unocal successfully resolve antitrust class actions regarding reformulated gasoline
- Chevron Corporation defends toxic tort charges involving cancer contraction , (2009)
- Chevron defends allegations of price gouging following Hurricane Katrina
- Chevron obtains defense victory in highly publicized Nigerian human rights case , (2009)
- Chevron prevails in California gasoline antitrust litigation
- Chevron prevails in U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case involving joint venture pricing , (2006)
- Daimler Chrysler defends against human rights litigation arising out of Argentina operations , (2009)
- Diebold defends against action under Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- Pacific Bell defends federal antitrust class action suit alleging refusal-to-deal liability related to DSL service
- Pacific Bell wins summary judgment in tortious interference and unfair competition litigation
- SBC California defends antitrust litigation involving DSL and other services
West Practice Categories
Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Deceptive Trade Practices, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Antitrust, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, RICO Act, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Trade Regulation, Unfair Competition, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- California
Education
- Claremont McKenna College
- U of Virginia- C'ville (Main)
Office Information
Address
555 California Street
26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phones
1.415.875.5710 (Business Phone)
Faxes
1.415.875.5700 (Business Fax)
Emails
Contact Us (Business Email)
