MARK P. ROBINSON, Jr., the 2014 National President of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), a national association of experienced trial lawyers and judges with chapters in all 50 states. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a highly selective professional society of trial lawyers and judges (including the justices of the United States Supreme Court) whose members are selected only by invitation. He is a past president of the Orange County Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. In 2011, he was chosen to serve on the Judicial Council of California Court Case Management Internal Committee. Mark P. Robinson, Jr. is the founder, senior partner, and sole shareholder of Robinson Calcagnie, Inc., based in Newport Beach, California. Mr. Robinson earned his Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and graduated cum laude from Loyola School of Law. He has established a prominent legal practice devoted to consumer safety and has worked on thousands of product liability cases, including the landmark Ford Pinto case, Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company, where a jury in Orange County, California, awarded $128 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America recognized the verdict as one of the ten most significant civil trials of the past millennium. Mr. Robinson’s other significant trials include Anderson v. General Motors, where a Los Angeles jury awarded $4.9 billion to burn victims in an automobile crash; Barnett v. Merck, a $51 million verdict in New Orleans federal court against the manufacturer of the prescription drug Vioxx; Ketchum vs. Hyundai, where a Los Angeles County jury awarded $15 million to a young boy paralyzed by a defective seat belt during a collision; Oliver vs. Nissan, where a jury returned a $9 million verdict in a product liability action in Los Angeles County; Siu v. General Motors, a $9 million judgment in a product liability action in San Diego; and Fair v. Ford, a $12 million award in a wrongful death action in Kentucky arising from a post-collision fire involving a school bus. In June 2013, Mr. Robinson received the Philip Burton Lifetime Legal Achievement Award from Consumer Watchdog, a national non-profit organization that advocates for taxpayer and consumer interests. In 2011, he was inducted by the California Bar Association Litigation Section into their Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame. In 2010 and 1999, Mr. Robinson received the California Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award, presented annually by California Lawyer magazine to attorneys whose achievements have made a profound impact on the law. In 2008, he was named California ABOTA Trial Lawyer of the Year for California and was also honored by the Anti-Defamation League (Orange County/Long Beach) with the Marcus Kaufman Jurisprudence Award. In 2007, he received the Champion of Justice Award from the Civil Justice Program in Southern California, and in 2006, he was named “Mass Tort Trial Lawyer of the Year” by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Robinson is also a Founding Member of the Orange County Bar Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that offers programs and services aimed at helping youth, their families, and the community. For many years, Mr. Robinson has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America, a peer-reviewed survey listing outstanding attorneys throughout the United States, and consistently named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in the State of California. He has also been named by the attorney rating service Super Lawyers to their 2014 Top 50 Orange County and Top 100 Southern California lists. In 2001, California Law Business named Mr. Robinson one of the top ten “Most Influential Lawyers in California.” In 1999, he was elected President of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), formerly the California Trial Lawyers Association. In 1996 and 1978, Mr. Robinson was honored as “Personal Injury Trial Lawyer of the Year” by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. He has served as a Board Member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) [now the American Association for Justice (AAJ)], the Association of Business Trial Lawyers Orange County Chapter, and the International Society of Barristers. He is one of the five Attorney Information Exchange Group (AIEG) founders. He is a past President of the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, and in 2001, served as President of the Orange County Bar Association Charitable Fund. He has also served as a Lawyer Representative to the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference (1999-2002). Mr. Robinson has extensive litigation and leadership experience in complex mass tort litigation. His leadership roles include the following fifteen (15) federal multidistrict litigations: Plaintiffs’ Co-Lead Counsel & Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee – In re Zoloft (Sertraline Hydrochloride) Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2342 12-MD-2342 Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee – In re Actos (Pioglitazone), MDL No. 6:11-md-2299 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Fosamax Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2243 Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee – In re DePuy ASR, MDL No. 2197 Plaintiffs’ Co-Lead Counsel for PI cases – In re Toyota Motor Corp. Unintended Acceleration Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2151 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Yasmin and Yaz (Drospirenone) Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2100 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Heparin Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1953 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Medtronic Inc., Sprint Fidelis Leads Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1905 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Bextra and Celebrex Marketing, Sales Practices and Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1699 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1657 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1596 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Baycol Products Litigation, MDL No. 1431 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Bridgestone/ Firestone Inc., Tires Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1373 Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee – In re Rezulin Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1348.
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