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Robert Cahill is a partner in the Commercial Litigation group and a member of the Litigation department. He joined the Firm in 1999 and is resident in the Reston office.
Mr. Cahill has experience in a wide range of complex business litigation matters. His practice covers numerous substantive areas of the law, including securities, false claims, complex commercial transactions and agreements, land use and real estate transactions, FCRA claims, government contracts, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software licenses, fraud, and trade secrets. His clients include technology companies, financial services companies, and venture capital firms.
Mr. Cahill has substantial jury and non-jury trial experience in federal and state courts, and he also regularly practices before arbitration panels. Although Mr. Cahill has appeared in many courts across the country, he has significant experience practicing before Virginia state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels.
Representative Matters Include:
- Obtained dismissal of nationwide consumer class action brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
- Trial counsel in a complex breach of contract and accounting fraud case in New York federal district court. Obtained award of $18 million plus attorney's fees after a three-week trial.
- Prosecuted a complex land use case in Virginia state court stemming from a local government's denial of zoning applications for a hospital.
- Obtained dismissal of $180 million lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia alleging fraud, conspiracy and tortious interference in connection with a teaming agreement for a large government contract.
- Obtained a defense verdict, an award of attorney's fees, and damages for wrongful attachment in an arbitration and two related Virginia state court litigations concerning the sale of satellite equipment.
- Successfully defended and settled a series of copyright infringement cases for a technology company stemming from the company providing on-line access to newsgroups allegedly containing infringing works posted by third parties, one of which resulted in the first published federal appellate decision on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Mr. Cahill has been involved in a variety of complex and high profile cases. Click here for litigation highlights from 1995-2009.
Before joining Cooley, Mr. Cahill was an associate with McGuire Woods LLP in the Tysons Corner office.
He received a J.D. from the University of Richmond (cum laude) in 1995, where he was a member of the University of Richmond Law Review and the McNeil Law Society. He earned a B.A. from Old Dominion University (summa cum laude) in 1991.
Education- University of Richmond School of Law
JD, 1995, cum laude - Old Dominion University
BA Political Science, 1991, summa cum laude
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
- Virginia Supreme Court
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