ATTORNEYS - Robert M. Duffy

Practice Areas
Robert Duffy, a co-founding shareholder of the firm, concentrates his practice on complex business litigation, including trade regulation, broker/customer disputes, securities litigation, shareholder litigation, probate and trust litigation, intellectual property, patent and technology litigation, executive employment, fraud and construction law.

Work for Clients
As a trial lawyer, Bob has handled hundreds of commercial cases in diverse practice areas including antitrust, transportation, probate and trust, insurance, contract, intellectual property and securities litigation. He has successfully tried, arbitrated and/or settled pension and breach-of-contract disputes on behalf of senior executives and business owners; prosecuted and defended individuals and corporations in antitrust and construction actions through trial; successfully recovered millions of dollars from brokers and broker/dealers on behalf of customers; and routinely represents minority shareholders in disputes involving emerging technologies and manufacturing. He has counseled numerous corporations and minority shareholders in breach of fiduciary duty and dissolution cases.

Bob has been retained by and regularly represents communication companies, domestic and international manufacturers, banks, securities brokers, real estate development companies as well as commercial real estate brokers, senior executives, business owners, trustees and wealthy individuals.

Bob has appeared on behalf of clients in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Maryland and California.

Professional Recognition
Bob has been named as a leading commercial litigation attorney in the current editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, Woodward/White Inc's Best Lawyers in America , New England Super Lawyer, and Benchmark Litigation The Definitive Guide to America's Leading Litigation Attorneys. He is rated "AV" in Martindale Hubbell's Peer Review Ratings

Education
J.D., Suffolk University Law School (cum laude), 1988; B.A., Providence College (cum laude), 1982.

Papers and Presentations
Advising Victims of Securities Fraud (Rhode Island Bar Association, May 2009); The Law of the Internet in Rhode Island (National Business Institute 2001); Internet Basics for the Rhode Island Attorney (National Business Institute 1999); CLE Seminar on the Revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (1995); CLE Seminar on Restrictive Covenants in Employment Agreements (1995); CLE Seminar on The Negotiated Rates Act of 1993 (Associated Industry of Massachusetts Journal, October 1994); CLE Seminar on the Business Judgment Rule (1992).

Bar and Court Admissions
Massachusetts (1988); Rhode Island (1990); United States District Court, District of Massachusetts (1989); United States District Court, District of Rhode Island (1991); United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit (1990); United States Tax Court (2000).

rduffy@duffysweeney.com