Robert Flatow is an associate in Weil’s Complex Commercial Litigation and Appeals and Strategic Counseling practices. He focuses on complex business disputes at all stages, as well as appeals in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Some of Robert’s recent experience includes:*
- Securing, on behalf of regulated parties, a preliminary injunction and stay of compliance deadlines of the CFPB’s open-banking rule to enforce Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act;
- Securing on appeal vacatur of a seven-figure judgment on behalf of a transportation company, with instructions that the judgment be reduced to zero;
- Representing the American Hospital Association and Texas Hospital Association as amici in a successful challenge to a rule promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services;
- Representing a group of civil procedure scholars as amici in persuading the en banc Eighth Circuit to discard an important pleading rule governing Section 1983 cases;
- Representing a nonprofit corporation in conducting an independent investigation of alleged employee misconduct;
- Representing an employer in the successful settlement of litigation threatened by multiple former employees;
- Representing an entity under monitorship pursuant to an agreement with the Office of the New York State Attorney General;
- Representing parties in multiple cases in advocacy before state and federal regulators.
Robert received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.A., cum laude and with distinction, from Yale College. Robert has served as a law clerk to the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as the Honorable Richard J. Sullivan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Honorable Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Prior to joining Weil, Robert worked at another leading law firm.
* includes matters handled prior to joining Weil