Robert A. Izard
Partner
Robert A. Izard
Direct Line: (860) 493-6295
Email: rizard@snilaw.com
Robert A. Izard is the former chair of the Commercial and Business Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association. He leads the firm’s ERISA team, which is at the forefront of retirement plan litigation in this country. He is lead counsel in many of the nation’s most significant class actions, including cases against Merck, Tyco International, Time Warner, AT&T and Sprint, among others.
Mr. Izard has substantial experience in other types of complex class action and commercial litigation matters. For example, he represented a class of milk purchasers in a price fixing case. He also represented a large gasoline terminal in a gasoline distribution monopolization lawsuit.
Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at Robinson & Cole, where he represented large corporate clients in a variety of business litigation matters. For example, he represented a large worker’s compensation insurer in numerous class action lawsuits filed throughout the country concerning an alleged conspiracy to fix worker’s compensation insurance rates.
As part of his twenty plus years litigating complex commercial cases, Mr. Izard has substantial jury and nonjury trial experience, including a seven-month jury trial in federal district court. He is also experienced in various forms of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, and is a Distinguished Neutral for the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Mr. Izard is the author of Lawyers and Lawsuits: A Guide to Litigation published by Simon and Schuster, and a contributing author to the Mediation Practice Guide.
He received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D., with honors, from Emory University, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was an editor of the Emory Law Journal.
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