Bob McLaughlin has focused on solving problems for professionals and their insurers for thirty years. Bob’s professional liability practice emphasizes representing insurers of lawyers, architects, engineers, insurance agents and brokers, accountants, and other non-medical professionals. Most of his practice is devoted toward helping firms and their insurers avoid and resolve serious legal malpractice claims. Bob also represents reinsurers of various professional liability and general liability insurers in the United States.

Bob’s experience includes regular trial practice in state and federal courts. He has supervised the defense of legal malpractice litigation on behalf of insurers of several of the 100 largest U.S. law firms on a nationwide basis, including the defense of legal malpractice claims against several top U.S. law firms arising from the Stanford Ponzi scheme, involving a loss to investors of in excess of $5B; multiple cases arising from legal advice to taxpayers on “son of boss” tax shelters and advice regarding shelters under IRS code sections 412(i) and 419; multiple cases involving claims under the Foreign Corrupt Protection Act (FCPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Fair Debt Collection Protection Act (FDCPA), the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and other state and federal statutes. Bob also regularly represents insurers of “hard to place” firms, predominantly plaintiffs class action and mass tort firms. He is adept at using creative methods to resolve multiple plaintiff cases. Additionally, Bob represents insurers on cyber liability claims throughout the U.S. He is also active in claims against Tech Media Insurers.

Bob’s practice also involves counseling insurers and professionals on litigation management, claim avoidance, and risk management issues. He is an active member of the Professional Liability Underwriters Society (PLUS) and is well versed in trends in the industry, including legal malpractice claims arising from transactional advice, securities advice and opinion letters, claims of deepening insolvency by bankrupt companies, and claims arising from unsuccessful litigation.

Bob received his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 1989.

Education

• Boston College Law School, J.D., 1989
• University of Georgia, B.A., 1986
  • cum laude With High Honors

Presentations and Publications

10 Mistakes that Patent Practitioners Make. Authored by Robert E. McLaughlin (April 2007).  Presented to the Austin Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.