Robert D. Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan's practice focuses on complex commercial, telecommunications, and employment litigation. He represented a major cellular telephone company in a contract dispute over the allocation of proceeds from the sale of a wireless license. He also represented a prominent research university in several cases alleging that faculty members were denied tenure on account of their gender, religion, or ethnicity. Mr. Kaplan represented a major telecommunications company in a series of consumer fraud class actions and in connection with a consumer fraud investigation initiated by a state attorney general's office. He also represented a large pharmaceutical company in the defense of a multimillion-dollar fraud and contract case arising out of an original equipment manufacturing agreement.
Mr. Kaplan graduated Phi Beta Kappa and first in his class from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1976, received a master's degree in history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978, and completed all but a dissertation for a Ph.D. in history before deciding to become a lawyer. Mr. Kaplan graduated magna cum laude in 1983 from Harvard Law School, where he declined an invitation to join the Law Review in order to work for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in trials and appeals in the Boston area state and federal courts. He clerked for The Honorable Robert L. Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Kaplan is a member of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Mr. Kaplan has been selected for inclusion by Law & Politics in Super Lawyers® 2008 New York Edition for having attained the highest degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in the multiphase Super Lawyers selection process which includes, among other factors, peer evaluation. He also received this designation in 2007.
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