Robert Dunn
- Lecturer in Law
Biography
Robert Dunn is the Managing Partner of Eimer Stahl’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices. He focuses his practice on appellate and complex litigation in a variety of areas, including class actions, constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and consumer privacy. He has represented clients in a variety of industries in high-stakes commercial disputes before the Supreme Court of the United States, federal and state appellate courts, various federal district courts, AAA and JAMS. He has also helped coordinate large joint defense groups in several complex litigations spanning numerous jurisdictions. He has assisted clients confronted with tens of thousands of arbitrations—known as mass arbitrations—and advised companies on their arbitration agreements. He is a go-to brief writer for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, drafting more than 30 amicus briefs for the Chamber over the past five years, and serves on the Chamber’s Advisory Committee for Energy & Environmental Litigation.
Before joining Eimer Stahl, Rob was a senior litigation associate at one of the nation’s top law firms. Rob served as a law clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court for the Honorable Clarence Thomas, and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain.
Rob also maintains a thriving pro bono practice focused largely on defending religious liberty. He has represented both individuals and various religious institutions in state and federal courts across the country, winning a landmark victory in the Supreme Court expanding First Amendment rights for religious adherents.