Attorneys

James R. Noblin

Rob Noblin is a partner representing clients in a wide array of complex business litigation, with an emphasis on antitrust, unfair competition and intellectual property cases. He has published numerous articles involving antitrust issues in legal journals.

Professional experience includes:

• Representing large municipal entities with respect to cutting-edge pass-on defense issues in Cartwright Act litigation arising from the California energy crisis.
• Representing a media company whose sale of radio stations and newspapers worth hundreds of millions of dollars was allegedly thwarted by a lending institution that threatened potential buyers with ill-founded lawsuits.
• Representing a credit report reseller in an antitrust case against a credit depository accused of a vertical price-fixing conspiracy with other resellers.
• Representing fishermen in a class action against landings based on allegations that the landings engaged in a horizontal price-fixing conspiracy for fishing charters.
• Representing used car dealerships in an antitrust class action against a wholesale auction company alleged to have conspired to rig bids.
• Representing a high-tech company in a shareholders' derivative action whose controlling interest was taken over by a control group that is allegedly draining money from the company.
• Representing a class action of physical therapists in an antitrust case against a preferred provider organization and a health insurer arising out of an alleged conspiracy to allocate customers.