Robin Weaver has represented clients in federal and state courts in numerous jurisdictions throughout the United States. His practice has included extensive appellate work in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits, as well as several state supreme courts and a multitude of state courts of appeal.

Robin is a Fellow of both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. He was named Lawyer of the Year by Ohio Lawyers Weekly and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Benchmark: Litigation, Chambers USA and Ohio Super Lawyers. He is past president of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and is a master commissioner and past chair of the Supreme Court of Ohio Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline. Robin was a member of the Supreme Court of Ohio’s Task Force on Rules of Professional Conduct, and the Court’s Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Fairness. He is a life member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference and the Eighth District Judicial Conference. Robin is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, and is a master bencher in the John M. Manos Inn of Court.

In 2010 he served as Foreperson of the Cuyahoga County grand jury. Robin is a longtime faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and currently serves on its board.

Representative Experience

• Representing major oil companies against class action and mass tort environmental claims for property damage and personal injury arising out of closed refineries.
• Representing several rubber companies in environmental landfill cases involving claims for diminution in property values, medical monitoring and cancer.
• Representing an aluminum manufacturer in Superfund litigation.
• Representing a major chemical company in a class action against environmental claims for medical monitoring and property damage arising out of a closed smelter.
• Prosecuting a trade secrets action for a major UK-based chemical manufacturer against a major Taiwan-based manufacturing conglomerate for the theft of sophisticated process technology.
• Defending a national US-based media company against claims of defamation.
• Defending a multinational manufacturer of X-ray film in a breach of nationwide distribution contract action.
• Representing a national medical billing services company in a breach of an asset purchase agreement action brought by a regional billing services company with attendant claims of fraud and misrepresentation.
• Serving as trial lawyer on the national trial team for a major pharmaceutical manufacturer.
• Prosecuting a breach of requirement contract action for an automotive parts manufacturer against an automotive parts supply company.
• Serving as national counsel for a major international tire manufacturer in defective design and mass tire recall litigation.
• Defending a major oil company against personal injury, property damage, business interruption and defective design claims evolving out of refinery explosions.
• Representing a major oil company in aviation fuel contamination cases.
• Serving as regional counsel on behalf of a major pharmaceutical company in drug recall litigation.
• Representing a major oil company against multiple claims evolving from alleged exposure of a contractor’s employees to petrochemicals.
• Representing a major electrical utility company in nuclear radiation exposure cases arising under the Price-Anderson Amendments Act.