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Bob Hill was recently described in America's Leading Business Lawyers as a "first-rate lawyer" who is "not only 'extraordinary' in the courtroom, but also 'able to diffuse a dispute before it goes to trial.'" Mr. Hill is a co-founder and shareholder of Hill & Robbins, P.C., where his practice emphasizes complex commercial litigation, particularly antitrust, securities, and pension litigation and class actions. Mr. Hill received his law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1970, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Law Review and graduated first in his class. Mr. Hill served as a law clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and as an associate with the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. before returning to Colorado as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. From 1975 through 1978, Mr. Hill served as First Assistant Attorney General of the State of Colorado, where he founded the Antitrust Section of the Colorado Attorney General's office.
Mr. Hill formed Hill & Robbins in 1978 and has had a leading role in many
of the largest civil-damage recoveries in Colorado in recent years. For example,
he served as co-lead counsel for a consumer class in the New Mexico Natural
Gas Antitrust Litigation that resulted in settlements totaling $75 million.
In the securities arena, Mr. Hill was appointed class counsel by Chief Judge
Matsch in the MiniScribe Securities Litigation and engineered one of the
largest securities settlements in the nation at that time. He also served as
court-appointed liaison counsel in the Alert
Income Partners Securities Litigation, which resulted in a recovery of $64
million and as class co-counsel in The Kidder Peabody Cases, where the
class recovered $50 million. In the pension area, Mr. Hill is currently co-counsel
for the class in Cooper v. IBM Corporation, a case challenging IBM's conversion
of its pension plan from a traditional defined benefit pension plan to a cash balance
plan as age discriminatory. A recently announced partial settlement of that litigation
will result in class members receiving a minimum of $314 million and as much
as $1.72 billion depending upon the outcome of the appeal of two unresolved issues.
In addition to court litigation, Mr. Hill was counsel in a successful arbitration
prosecution under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce in Hong
Kong involving a failed power plant in the Philippines.
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for "Business Litigation" since 1991, Mr. Hill was recently named to their inaugural listing of "Bet-the-Company" litigators. With just over 100 attorneys named in the entire country, this is the most prestigious list Best Lawyers publishes. He was also named one of the three best lawyers in Colorado for General Commercial Litigation in the recent publication America's Leading Business Lawyers. Mr. Hill received the Award for Best of the Bar for Antitrust Law in 2004 and the Knous Award from the University of Colorado School of Law in 2005, the highest award given by the Law School. Mr. Hill also has received numerous awards for community service including the National Philanthropy Day Award as the Outstanding Volunteer in Colorado (2003), the Colorado Bar Association's Hoagland Award for Public Service and the Individual of the Year Award and the Outstanding Sustained Contribution Award from the Colorado Lawyers Committee. He is the past chair of the Committee on Conduct of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and Colorado's Ocean Journey. He is currently on the board of Invest in Kids, a nonprofit children's organization that he co-founded in 1996, and Chairman of the Board of the Nurse-Family Partnership, a national nurse visitation program serving some 12,000 low-income mothers and their children in more than 20 states.
Mr. Hill has served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the States of Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico and has represented defendants in numerous complex commercial cases, including the recent successful dismissal of litigation against his clients in two major antitrust cases involving the provision of international satellite insurance and governmental immunities. He has taught courses in complex litigation as a member of the faculty of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, and has been a lecturer for a variety of professional educational programs.
Admitted to Practice
Colorado
Education
B.A., University of Nebraska at Lincoln (1967)
J.D., University of Colorado, first in class (1970)
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