Robert Boone’s practice focuses on class actions and commercial litigation involving financial institutions, as well as complex products liability litigation, in both federal and state courts nationwide. He is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee as well as our Consumer Financial Services Litigation Team. Mr. Boone has extensive experience advising financial institutions about issues and claims concerning federal regulation of the industry, including RESPA, TILA and HOEPA, as well as state consumer protection statutes and common law predatory lending claims in federal and state courts throughout the country. Such claims and issues have concerned alleged predatory lending practices targeting low-income and minority borrowers, "bait and switch" loan product tactics, fraudulent appraisal and other loan settlement services, inadequate loan origination disclosures, and improper loan servicing fees.

Mr. Boone has also represented small to large businesses in commercial disputes regarding trade secrets, trademarks, accounting practices, contracts, warranties, goods under the UCC, unfair competition and fraud. He has an engineering background and regularly represents aircraft and aircraft component manufacturers in product liability matters throughout the country. He also has defended a wide variety of other products, such as automobiles and automobile components, trucks, bank security devices, high strength plastics, high voltage electrical equipment, firearms, cranes and hoisting devices, telephone equipment and packaging for steel coils.

Bar and Court Admissions

California, 1987

District of Columbia, 1989

Georgia, 1997

United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits

United States District Courts for the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Education

Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1987

Vanderbilt University, B.E., cum laude, 1984