Robert A. Mittelstaedt (Bob)
Partner
San Francisco
Tel: 1.415.875.5710
Fax: 1.415.875.5700
Email:
ramittelstaedt@jonesday.com
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Bob Mittelstaedt is Partner-in-Charge in San Francisco. He litigates and tries complex commercial matters, including antitrust, unfair business practice claims, employment law, contract, fraud, and international law claims under the Alien Tort Statute. Bob has served as lead trial counsel or national coordinating counsel in state and federal antitrust matters for industries ranging from computer games and gasoline to Internet service providers and high-speed Internet access. He has handled class actions and parens patriae actions by nationwide and statewide classes of consumers and franchisees as well as regulatory matters before the California Public Utilities Commission, complex arbitrations and grand jury, and other criminal matters. His specialty is devising efficient ways to dispose of complex cases, including phasing or narrowing discovery, defeating or limiting class certification, and obtaining summary judgment.
His trial experience ranges from obtaining a defense jury verdict in a Sherman Act Section 2 monopolization action after a three-month trial to obtaining a declaration that a rent control law in Hawaii was unconstitutional as well as other criminal, complex civil, and wrongful death trials and arbitrations. Representative clients include Apple Inc., AT&T, ChevronTexaco Corporation, DaimlerChrysler AG, and Sega of America. His pro bono practice focuses on First Amendment and police misconduct litigation, including a recent injunction against the California prison system permitting prisoners to receive materials downloaded from the Internet.
Bob is a member of the State of California and numerous federal courts, including trial and appellate courts. He has served on the board of directors of The Bar Association of San Francisco and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. He is a member of the Antitrust and Telecommunications Sections of the American Bar Association. He has spoken and written on the subjects of trial practice and civil discovery.
Before starting his legal career, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia.
Admitted
California
Education
Claremont Men's College (B.A. magna cum laude 1969); University of Virginia (Order of the Coif; J.D. 1973)
Clerkship
Law Clerk to Judge William P. Gray, United States District Court, Los Angeles (1973-1974)