Robert B. Carey

Rob added to HB’s office a built-in mock courtroom, complete with jury box, audio-visual equipment to record witnesses and lawyers, and separate deliberation rooms for two juries.

Current Role:

• Partner & Executive Committee Member, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro
• Leads Hagens Berman’s Phoenix and Colorado Springs offices
• Practice focuses on class-action lawsuits, including auto defect, insurance, right of publicity and fraud cases
• Routinely handles jury trials for high-value cases

Recent Success:

• Helped start HB’s efforts against GM for its ignition system and other recall problems, which is now in the MDL with Hagens Berman leading the litigation
• Helped originate the Toyota Sudden Unintended Acceleration case, filing the initial Hagens Berman complaints for a case that eventually settled for $1.6 billion
• Prevailed in a jury trial in a copyright case regarding the iconic Madden NFL video game, with two jury verdicts against Electronic Arts. The effort was selected by The Daily Journal, a leading legal publication, as a Top Trial Verdict of 2013.
• Led Hagens Berman’s efforts on the $400 million settlement with Hyundai and Kia corporations over misrepresentations about MPG ratings
• Helped secure a first-ever ($60 million) settlement for collegiate student-athletes (Keller, consolidated with O’Bannon) from Electronic Arts (EA) and the NCAA for the misappropriation of the student-athletes’ likenesses and images for the EA college football video game series. This groundbreaking suit went up to the U.S. Supreme Court before a settlement was reached, providing student-athletes—even current ones—with cash recoveries for the use of their likenesses without permission.
• Numerous jury verdicts in trials, including complex matters, phasing of threshold issues, liability and damages, trials with more than $75 million at stake and recoveries of treble and punitive damages
• While serving as Arizona Chief Deputy Attorney General:
• Helped secure a $4 billion divestiture and a landmark $165 million antitrust settlement
• Helped revise Arizona’s criminal code and authored the section of the federal Prisoner Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that virtually eliminated frivolous prisoner lawsuits

Recognition:

• Recognized by the judges of the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County for outstanding contributions to the justice system
• U.S. Department of Justice, recognized for victims’ rights efforts
• Listed since 2008 as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer by Arizona’s Finest Lawyers and National Trial Lawyers
• For his work with Hagens Berman's Toyota team, Mr. Carey was selected as a Finalist for Public Justice’s 2014 Trial Lawyer of the Year

Notable Cases:

• Toyota Unintended Acceleration Litigation
• NCAA Student-Athlete Name and Likeness Licensing Litigation
• Swift Truckers Litigation
• Hyundai Subframe Defect Litigation
• Hyundai Occupant Classification System / Airbag Litigation
• Hyundai Horsepower Litigation
• Arizona v. McKesson False Claims and Consumer Protection Litigation (representing State of Arizona)
• Student-Athlete Likeness Litigation against CBS Sports and Printroom
• Student-Athlete Likeness Litigation against T3 Media
• LifeLock Sales and Marketing Litigation
• Rexall Sundown Cellasene Litigation
• Insurance bad faith against major carriers and personal injury cases, including dozens of seven-figure verdicts and settlements

Experience:

• Arizona Chief Deputy Attorney General
• Adjunct Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
• Judge Pro Tempore, Maricopa County Superior Court

Legal Activities:

• Member and Former Chairman, Arizona State Bar Class Action and Derivative Suits Committee

Publications:

• Co-author of the Arizona chapter of the ABA’s “A Practitioner’s Guide to Class Actions”