ROBERT C. WALTERS
 

• Secured trial verdict in federal court in San Antonio, Texas in nationally-recognized antitrust litigation brought by independent video retailers against Blockbuster and the principal Hollywood movie studios
• Secured denials in actions in California and Texas of motions to certify national classes of approximately 25,000 independent video retailers against Blockbuster and the principal Hollywood movie studios claiming violations of federal and California antitrust and trade practices statutes
• Secured denials of motions to certify national classes of tens of thousands of workers' compensation insureds in federal and state court class actions across the country against Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and other workers' compensation insurers
• Secured dismissals of actions against Continental Airlines and Southwest Airlines in class actions pending in federal courts in New York, New Jersey, California, and Texas in which plaintiffs sought in excess of $100 million in federal excise tax refunds
• Secured multi-million dollar settlements for Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, Inc. in contract and business torts action against two national REITs stemming from the $2.1 billion sale of the real estate assets of Sears, Roebuck & Co.
• Secured dismissals of claims against several principal defendants in the class action Charitable Gift Annuity Antitrust Litigation in federal court in Wichita Falls, Texas, in which plaintiffs sought hundreds of millions of dollars in damages
• Secured dismissals of claims against Chicago Title Insurance Company, the largest writer of title insurance in Texas, in the Texas Title Insurance Antitrust Litigation; plaintiffs sought to certify a class of hundreds of thousands of purchasers of title insurance and related services and seek hundreds of millions in damages from the principal title insurance underwriters in Texas
• Secured a multi-million dollar trial verdict for the Life Insurance Company of Georgia against Electronic Data Systems in a computer software dispute; the Fifth Circuit later affirmed the judgment
• Secured successful settlement for Cyrix Corporation in a several-hundred-million-dollar dispute with Texas Instruments over TI's manufacture of IBM-compatible microprocessors for Cyrix
• Secured a multi-million dollar jury verdict in state district court in Dallas County, Texas for the manager of rap artist Vanilla Ice against the artist's former promoter
• Secured dismissal of securities fraud claims against Coopers & Lybrand in the Northern District of Texas and an affirmance by the Fifth Circuit in a case in which plaintiffs sought hundreds of millions of dollars in damages
• Successfully defended Tatung Corporation of Taiwan at trial against a multi-million dollar claim brought by a former distributor of Tatung products
• Member of Vinson & Elkins trial team in the ETSI Antitrust Litigation that obtained a $1.1 billion jury verdict against the Santa Fe Railroad

• Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation; Dallas Bar Foundation; The Center for American and International Law
• Past Member: Council of the Antitrust Section, American Bar Association
• Past Chair: Publications Committee, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association; Energy and Fuels Committee, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association; Regulated Industries Committee, Antitrust Section; Dallas Bar Association, Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section
• Past Adjunct Professor in Trial Advocacy: Southern Methodist University School of Law
• Member: Dallas Citizens Council; The Dallas Assembly; Texas Lyceum; Dallas Council on World Affairs
• Founding Member: University of Texas Plan II Alumni Board

Recognition

• "Forty Lawyers in America Under 40," The National Law Journal, 1995
• "Forty-Five Under 45: Rising Stars in the Law," The American Lawyer, 1996
• "Top 100 Lawyers in Texas," Texas Monthly, 2003
• "Best Lawyers in Dallas" (listed both in Business Litigation and in Antitrust) D Magazine, 2001 - 2004
• The Best Lawyers in America; (listed both in Business Litigation and in Antitrust), 2003, 2004
• One of three Texas lawyers identified by the Global Counsel Competition Law Handbook as among "America's Best Antitrust Lawyers," 2002 - 2004
• One of fifteen Texas trial lawyers identified in the 2003 - 2004 Global Counsel Dispute Resolution Handbook as "leading" or "highly recommended"

• The University of Texas, B.A. with highest honors, 1980 (Plan II Interdisciplinary Honors; Phi Beta Kappa; Friar Society)
• The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 1983 (Member, Texas Law Review)
• Admitted to practice: Texas, 1983; United States Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of Texas