Robert A. Steinberg, Esq.
Professional Liability
Mr. Steinberg’s mediation practice focuses on business-related cases.
He is known for his technical legal expertise, his innovative solutions
to difficult business disputes, and his insight into parties’
motivations.
Mr. Steinberg’s long experience as a tax and transactional lawyer make
him the ideal choice for professional liability issues, particularly
those involving accounting and tax professionals.
Representative Professional Liability Cases
• Major accounting firm advised limited liability company to become
taxable as corporation in advance of its sale. Advice cost client as
much as $20,000,000 in reduced purchase price because of adverse tax
consequences of decision.
• Pension firm client sued claiming pension firm misled him as to the
permissible amount of his annual contributions.
• Client claimed his attorney had not advised him of settlement offer
before trial. His attorney died shortly after underlying trial ended in
adverse judgment and his law firm had no witness to disprove client’s
claim.
• Bank officer claimed law firm had conflict of interest in representing
both him and his bank and sued law firm when bank fired him because of
information he disclosed to law firm.
• Claim that attorney in real property sale improperly agreed to
allocation of pre-paid amounts under cellular tower lease without
obtaining client’s consent.
Career Highlights
• Mr. Steinberg has successfully resolved hundreds of mediated cases. In
his twenty-five year career as a corporate, securities and tax lawyer
and as a litigator, Mr. Steinberg handled billions of dollars in
transactions and obtained tens of millions of dollars in tax refunds.
• As partner-in-charge of the Los Angeles office of an international law
firm, Mr. Steinberg increased annual distributable income per partner by
more than $300,000 in fewer than four years.
• 150 of Mr. Steinberg’s partners honored him with an award for
“Outstanding Teamwork and Collegiality.”
• Mr. Steinberg has extensive experience with multinational and
multicultural matters.
Mr. Steinberg has published more than fifty
articles and presented more
than thirty seminars on
settlement advocacy, case evaluation, negotiation strategy and tactics,
and mediation. He received his undergraduate degree from the University
of Michigan (Honors in English), his law degree from Duke University,
and his Masters of Law (in Taxation) degree from New York University.
Mr. Steinberg’s full resume and references can be reviewed
here.
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