Robert Plotz - email

Bob Plotz has twenty-five years of experience in criminal and complex civil litigation in all courts. He joined the firm in 1989 as counsel and became a partner in 1990.

Mr. Plotz received his B.A. cum laude from Yale University and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as Executive Editor of the Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Edward Weinfeld of the Southern District of New York.

After more than two years as a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City, Mr. Plotz joined the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York under Rudolph W. Giuliani, where he conducted many investigations and trials in the narcotics and securities areas and argued appeals before the Second Circuit. He tried the seminal case U.S. v. Chestman, which was the first criminal prosecution in the country under SEC Rule 14e-3, the tender-offer insider-trading rule. He also prosecuted David Bloom, the so-called "Wall Street whiz kid."

In private practice, Mr. Plotz has appeared in state and federal courts throughout the country. He has represented many individuals, including chief executive officers of public companies, in criminal and regulatory investigations. His civil cases have run the gamut of complex disputes, including cases under the Lanham Act, securities laws, employment-related disputes, takings cases and civil fraud. He has handled many cases in the Surrogate's Courts, in particular will contests. Recent cases include: representation of a New York Stock Exchange-listed REIT sued by its preferred shareholders to enjoin a merger, which the Appellate Division upheld as a legitimate exercise of the board's business judgment; defense of a will in Surrogate's Court on behalf of a charitable beneficiary, resulting in a favorable settlement on the eve of trial; representation of the chief executive officer of a public company in a case brought by the SEC in connection with suspected insider trading; representation of the founder of ImClone Systems and others in an employment dispute relating to another health-related company.

Mr. Plotz is a member of the New York bar as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Second Circuit.

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