David A. Robinson, Esq.

Managing Partner
drobinson@enterprisecounsel.com

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Trial Lawyer
• Complex Business Litigation
• Trade Secrets and Related Unfair Competition Litigation
• Real Property Litigation
• Insurance Litigation
• Employment Litigation
• Unfair Competition
• Computer Law
• Employment/Human Resources Law
• Health Care Law
• Products Liability/Consumer Litigation
• Probate and Trust Litigation

EXPERIENCE

Mr. Robinson has more than 25 years experience as a trial lawyer specializing in complex business matters. He serves on Chapman Law School’s Board of Visitors, as an advisor to the Chapman Law School Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, as Chairman of the Irvine Valley College Foundation, as Vice-President of Finance and Strategic Planning for the Boy Scouts of America, Orange County Council, as an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association's Commercial Dispute Resolution Panel, as a Judge Pro Tempore to the Orange County Superior Court, and as past special trial counsel to the Orange County Bar Association.

Mr. Robinson's representative defense victories include a unanimous defense jury verdict on behalf of an NYSE traded silicon chip manufacturer in a multi-million dollar products liability action; a defense jury verdict exonerating a law firm sued for alleged suppression of free speech rights; a defense judgment rejecting breach of contract, unfair competition and other tort claims against an association of emergency room physicians; a defense arbitration award, following a 43 day evidentiary hearing, dismissing claims of accounting manipulation and fraud against sellers of vertically-aligned manufacturing businesses; a defense judgment exonerating an entertainment industry client of fraud, conversion and unfair business practice charges; a judgment exonerating a nationwide manufacturer of freight trailers in a multi-party products liability action; the dismissal, via separate pre-trial settlements, of numerous misrepresentation and breach of warranty claims against sellers of various hotel, shopping center and apartment properties; and an arbitration award thwarting a dismissed executive's claim for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy.

Mr. Robinson's representative plaintiff victories include a jury verdict against a real estate attorney for fraud and malpractice; multiple judgments quieting title and expunging competing ownership claims to commercial, retail and residential subdivision property; a judgment validating millions of dollars worth of disputed preferred corporate stock; a judgment extinguishing disputed easement/right-of-way claims across beach front property; a judgment for fraud and breach of warranties against the seller of a fleet of commercial vehicles; a judgment for fraud against the seller of a franchised hotel property near Disneyland; multiple judgments and permanent injunctions preserving trade secret information belonging to several ECG clients; a settlement, reached mid-way through trial, awarding an ECG client 100% of a disputed multi-million dollar California lottery prize; a stipulated judgment, entered after the commencement of trial, reforming and enforcing an NYSE commercial lender's recorded security interest in a complex of commercial properties; a settlement, reached following a eight day evidentiary hearing, awarding exclusive title to multiple patents issued in the United States and China to ECG's client; and a settlement establishing a shipyard's right to a 35 year sublease extension.

Mr. Robinson also has extensive experience successfully representing clients in prosecuting and defending shareholder derivative actions, particularly those involving shareholder voting rights, stock buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, corporate control issues and the appointment of provisional corporate directors.

EDUCATION

Mr. Robinson graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Riverside in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Law and Society. Mr. Robinson earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1982, and is a former intern to Associate Justice Joseph R. Grodin, California Supreme Court, 1982-1983.

MEMBERSHIPS, PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Mr. Robinson was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1982. He is also admitted to the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth and Sixth Circuits; the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California; the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Michigan, Western District of Missouri and Western District of Washington.

Mr. Robinson is a member of the American Healthcare Lawyers Association, served as past Chairman of the Orange County Bar Association's Legislative Affairs Committee, as a member of the California State Bar’s Judicial Evaluations and Nominations Commission,, and is active in the Orange County Republican Lawyers' Association and Federalist Society. Mr. Robinson volunteers as an Assistant Scoutmaster and is an active supporter of the Boy Scouts of America.

APPELLATE DECISIONS

Videotape Plus, Inc. v. Lyons, 89 Cal.App.4th 156 (2001) [upholding a corporation’s right to sue a competitor for malicious prosecution following the corporation’s successful defense of a factually baseless lawsuit]

Joseph P. Saline v. Superior Court (Commonwealth Energy Corporation),100 Cal.App.4th 909 (2002) [overturning lower court order wrongfully restricting corporate director’s right to obtain, and comment on, corporate records]

Le Plastrier v. Masters, 2004 WL 29744077 [upholding lower court order denying SLAPP motion to strike/summarily dismiss claims for abuse of process and slander of title]

Ekstrom v. Marquesa at Monarch Beach Homeowners Association, 168 Cal. App. 4th 1111 (2008) [upholding judgment enforcing CC&R provisions that served to protect clients’ ocean views]

Choi v. Orange County Great Park Corp., 175 Cal.App.4th 524 (2009) [awarding attorneys’ fees to City Council members who successfully sued to force public benefit nonprofit corporation’s disclosure of records pertaining to, among other things, consideration of CEO candidates and expenditure of public funds]