Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Bob Brewer has successfully represented officers, directors, and employees in both complex civil litigation cases and as a white-collar criminal defense attorney.

Bob was a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles for two years, served as an assistant United States attorney for four and a half years, and was an assistant chief of the criminal division of the L.A. U.S. Attorney's Office. He was featured on "60 Minutes" for his successful 1981 prosecution of Marion Zacharski, a Polish businessman, in the first espionage case against a non-Soviet spy since the end of World War II. Four years later, after extensive negotiations by the U.S. State Department, Mr. Zacharski was traded for 25 individuals in Soviet jails who were alleged to be pro-Western spies. Bob handled numerous other types of cases as a federal prosecutor that included bank robberies, distribution of narcotics, a murder for hire, civil rights violations, and an aircraft hijacking case.  He also received a special commendation award from the attorney general for his service as an AUSA.

Bob has personally litigated wage and hour class action employment litigation in New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Florida.  These cases have involved extensive motion work, class certification issues, damage evaluations, and hundreds of depositions.  He is lead counsel in the nationwide FLSA case Perez v. RadioShack, which involves more than 3,500 class members and has been vigorously litigated for more than three years.

His private practice career as a litigator in San Diego has involved more than 90 jury trials, including defense of wage and hour/employment class actions, fraud (civil and criminal), professional negligence, business and commercial torts and contracts, securities and shareholder derivative suits, health care fraud, qui tam actions, and contract and intellectual property disputes. In 1989, he was co-counsel for the ex-mayor of Del Mar, California, Nancy Hoover, in a nine-month federal securities fraud trial, the longest federal criminal trial in San Diego history. In addition, he has been hired on several occasions to represent San Diego Superior Court judges who have been the focus of alleged improprieties.

In 2005, Bob was lead counsel representing RadioShack in a class action jury trial in federal court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania involving an FLSA claim for overtime by a statewide class of 533-plaintiff store managers. Following a two and a half week trial, a 10-person jury unanimously returned a verdict for RadioShack.

Bob is a member of the American Bar Association, the Enright Inn of Court (president), the Federal Defenders (board of directors), the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and the San Diego County Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• U of San Diego

Address

12265 El Camino Real Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130-4096

Phones

1.858.314.1172 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.858.314.1150 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com