Robert F. Redmond, Jr.

Robert Redmond focuses his trial practice on mass tort, product liability and complex commercial litigation. He regularly tries jury cases to verdict in state and federal courts around the country. He was trial counsel in a multi-million dollar Lanham Act and defamation jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The case resulted in the largest verdict in Virginia for 2009. Less than a year earlier, he tried a multi-million dollar tort case to a defense verdict also in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He has also recently tried a mold toxicity case to verdict in Fairfax County, Va. Mr. Redmond was trial counsel in a case selected by the National Law Journal as one of the “Top Ten Defense Verdicts of 2002.” He has served as counsel in numerous other jury trials around the nation.

Robert Redmond focuses his trial practice on mass tort, product liability and complex commercial litigation. He regularly tries jury cases to verdict in state and federal courts around the country. He was trial counsel in a multi-million dollar Lanham Act and defamation jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The case resulted in the largest verdict in Virginia for 2009. Less than a year earlier, he tried a multi-million dollar tort case to a defense verdict also in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He has also recently tried a mold toxicity case to verdict in Fairfax County, Va. Mr. Redmond was trial counsel in a case selected by the National Law Journal as one of the “Top Ten Defense Verdicts of 2002.” He has served as counsel in numerous other jury trials around the nation.

Mr. Redmond maintains a national practice and has served as national coordinating counsel in several mass tort and multi-district litigations including Silica, MDL 1553; MTBE, MDL 1358; Latex Glove Litigation MDL 1148. Mr. Redmond also serves as regional and local counsel in asbestos, lead paint, toxic tort, medical device and pharmaceutical litigation in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. He also serves as counsel for corporations involved in insurance coverage, patent, trademark and intellectual property litigation in Virginia.

Mr. Redmond has an active appellate practice. He has argued before the Supreme Court of Virginia; the Texas Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the Texas Court of Appeals. He has filed amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on the interpretation of patent law.

Mr. Redmond is admitted to practice law in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Texas, as well as federal courts in those jurisdictions and elsewhere.

Mr. Redmond is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Virginia Business magazine’s “Legal Elite” and Virginia Super Lawyers magazine. Martindale Hubbell ranks Mr. Redmond as an AV attorney. Mr. Redmond writes and speaks extensively on mass tort litigation, insurance coverage, federal procedure and electronic discovery.

Mr. Redmond is a member of the board of directors of the John Marshall American Inn of Court, is vice chair of the Programming, Toxic and Hazardous Substances Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel and a member of the Defense Research Institute. He also serves on the board of directors for the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Redmond maintains an active pro bono practice and has been awarded Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Pro Bono Award by the Virginia State Bar. This annual award is the highest pro bono honor from the VSB awarded to practicing attorneys. Mr. Redmond has also been awarded the City of Richmond Bar Association’s John C. Kenny Award and the Virginia Lawyers Weekly “Leaders in the Law” Award. All of these honors were awarded to Mr. Redmond for his role in starting pro bono clinics for Hispanic immigrants in Richmond and in Northern Virginia. His pro bono work was also profiled in the National Law Journal."

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Redmond was a prosecutor in the U.S. Army serving in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. He received his bachelor of arts degree, with high distinction, from the University of Virginia, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his juris doctor degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University, where he was associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. He also holds United States Patent Number 5,303,638.