Robert L. Palmer

Robert Palmer is a principal in the Los Angeles office of McKool Smith Hennigan. Robert primarily handles complex litigation and trial practice, with a special focus on disputes relating to banking and finance, securities, real estate, and the False Claims Act.

Robert joined the firm in 1995. Prior to joining the firm, Robert was a litigation partner at Osborn Maledon in Phoenix, Arizona, for many years.

• AV(T) Peer Review Rated
• Southern California Super Lawyers, 2006-2013
• Notes and comments editor, Columbia Law Review

• Law clerk to the Honorable Harold Leventhal, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1971-1972
• Assistant special prosecutor for Watergate Special Prosecution Force, U.S. Department of Justice, 1973-74
• President of Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, 1990-92
• Board of directors, Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, 1988-1995
• Board of directors, Trial Practice Inn of Court of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1999-2002