Robert W. Fischer, Jr. joined the Los Angeles office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in February 2001. As a partner, his practice continues to focus on complex commercial litigation.

Bob has represented clients in significant business litigation in the areas of securities, real estate, corporate governance and control, accounting and auditing, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, commercial contracts, consumer class actions and many other business-related disputes.

Since joining Fulbright, Bob has:

• represented a major retailer in two consumer class actions involving alleged unfair business practices, and succeeded in obtaining dispositive orders in favor of the defendant in both matters;
• tried with another partner a nine-week class-action trial in federal court in Santa Ana alleging aiding and abetting fraud by an investment banker in the sale of sub-prime mortgages;
• successfully defeated class certification in an action alleging fraud in the sale of non-qualified, tax-advantaged retirement programs funded with variable life insurance;
• tried an action for a corporation alleging that one of its members and that member's nominated directors to the corporation's Board of Directors breached their fiduciary duties by theft of a corporate opportunity, obtaining a judgment of $7.5 million plus attorneys' fees;
• represented both buyers and sellers in post-acquisition accounting disputes;
• represented a publicly-held internet-based company in defense of a securities fraud class action and related shareholder derivative action, securing the dismissal of the derivative action for failure to plead demand futility and settling the securities fraud action entirely with funds from the corporations' insurance carrier;
• secured a refund of property taxes and interest in excess of $14 million from the City and County of San Francisco;
• argued a case  before the California Supreme Court involving the issue of personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporation because of contacts with California over the internet;
• tried a two-week antitrust trial against the State of California alleging illegal tying in the market for traffic signal equipment;
• tried to verdict a six-week jury trial of a collective action under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act in Federal District Court for the District of New Jersey; and
• tried a case in Visalia, California involving a dispute between an agricultural cooperative and one of its members over payment for an agricultural product.

• State Bar of California

• "Insights and Observations on Earnouts and Related Post-Acquisition Disputes," FTI Consulting and Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Web Seminar, June 9, 2010
• "Trying an FLSA Collective Action Case: Top 10 Things You Need to Know," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Web Seminar, May 19, 2010

1973 - J.D., UCLA School of Law
1970 - B.A., Business Administration, Occidental College

While in law school Bob was an Associate Editor of the UCLA Law Review. He was admitted to practice law in California in 1973. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and every Federal District Court in California.

• Watts Community Labor Action Committee, Board of Directors
• Southern California Golf Association, Board of Directors
• Southern California Golf Association, Rules and Competitions Committee
• Unites States Golf Association, Junior Amateur Committee