Robert A. Izard

Robert A. Izard heads the firm’s ERISA team and has been lead or co-lead counsel in many of the nation’s most significant ERISA class actions, including cases against Raytheon, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Metropolitan Life, United Healthcare, Cigna, Merck, Time Warner, AT&T, Fidelity, Prudential and John Hancock among others. Mr. Izard has substantial experience in other types of complex class action and commercial litigation matters. For example, he represented a class of milk purchasers in a price fixing case. He also represented a large gasoline terminal in a gasoline distribution monopolization lawsuit.

As part of his thirty-five plus years litigating complex commercial cases, Mr. Izard has substantial jury and nonjury trial experience, including a seven-month jury trial in federal district court. He is also experienced in various forms of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

Mr. Izard is the author of Lawyers and Lawsuits: A Guide to Litigation published by Simon and Schuster and a contributing author to the Mediation Practice Guide. He is the former Chair of the Commercial and Business Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association. He is listed in Best Lawyers in the areas of ERISA and antitrust litigation. He is listed in Super Lawyers in the areas of class action and business litigation.

Mr. Izard received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D., with honors, from Emory University, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was an editor of the Emory Law Journal.