Robert Bailey’s practice primarily involves commercial litigation, general civil litigation, and appellate law.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Defended city, county, and state police departments in civil rights cases
- Obtained a writ of coram nobis to secure expungement of the records in a client's family member's immigration proceeding
- Assisted with pleadings, briefing, and complicated discovery issues on a claim by a client against a former manager accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the client
- Drafted a indemnity provision in a city's civic center performance contract
- Defended a gas pipeline operator in a case alleging public service commission jurisdiction over the pipeline
- Defended a coal operator in a large breach-of-contract claim
- Wrote the summary judgment and appellate briefing for a municipal client’s defense of wage & hour claims by several employees, resulting in near seven-figure savings for this public employer
- Opposed a remand from federal to state court, arguing that the federal court should adopt a new rule on the timing of service on multiple defendants
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
- Commercial litigation
- Civil litigation
- Appellate law
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002 Steptoe & Johnson
2000-2001 Clerk, Honorable Robert C. Chambers,
U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of West Virginia
2001-2002 Clerk, Honorable Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland,
Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit
1985-2000 Sole proprietorship, providing computer
programming and laboratory consulting
for pharmaceutical and chemical
manufacturing companies
INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS
- Co-Chair, West Virginia University Institute of Technology Computer Science Advisory Council
AWARDS / HONORS
- 2008 Alumnus of the Year, West Virginia University Institute of Technology and the College of Engineering and Sciences
- National Moot Court Team
- Virginia Bar’s Environmental Law Digest
- Chairman, White Book (honor system) Review Committee