Bob has consistently won some of the highest damage awards in the nation. For three consecutive years, he made The National Law Journal's list of lawyers winning the highest verdicts.

He was trial counsel on the "New York Powerhouse" asbestos cases and the consolidated Brooklyn Navy Yard litigation, which resulted in the largest asbestos damage awards in the country for 1991 and 1992, according to The National Law Journal.

In 1993, Bob served as co-trial counsel with LPK partner Moshe Maimon on a case that resulted in New York State's largest asbestos damage award-one of the largest in the nation for that year. He repeated this feat by obtaining two of New York State's highest compensatory verdicts for asbestos exposure in 1996 and, again, in 2003.

Bob earned a Masters Degree in Marine Environmental Sciences from Stony Brook University's Marine Sciences Research Center. He earned a law degree from Hofstra University's School of Law, where he was an editor at the Hofstra Law Review. He is a former member of the Products Liability Committee of the New York City Bar Association and has co-chaired the New York State Bar Association's Civil Litigation Committee on Environmental Law.

An esteemed authority on trial practices and environmental and toxic tort law, Bob has lectured before many legal gatherings including the American Bar Association, the American Association of Trial Lawyers (ATLA), and the American Conference Institute. Moreover, he is the author of several educational articles about the legal aspects of cases involving exposure to toxic substances and unsafe products.