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Robert Sayler

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58 years of experience
Business Law, Consumer Law, Environmental Law ...
District of Columbia

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Practice Areas

Business Law

Consumer Law

Environmental Law

Gov & Administrative Law

Intellectual Property

Antitrust Law

Additional Practice Areas

Insurance Coverage - Policyholders
Intellectual Property Litigation
Insurance Coverage Litigation & Arbitration
Environmental, Carbon Markets & Clean Technology

Insurance Bad Faith
General Civil
Environmental
Antitrust Litigation
Antitrust & Consumer Law
Administrative Litigation
Litigation

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Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

District of Columbia: District of Columbia Bar
Since 1966

Professional Experience

Senior Counsel: Covington & Burling LLP; Current

Education

he was the John Ewald Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School: A.B.; 1995; his trial experience has focused on intellectual property litigation, administrative litigation, antitrust litigation, complex litigation, and cases where he has served as lead counsel for successful insurance policyholders in billion dollar-plus insurance coverage disputes for asbestos, DES, environmental clean-up, and breast implant liabilities. Those for whom he has served as trial counsel include Armstrong World Industries, Boeing, Pittston, Dow Corning, 3M, Monsanto, Exxon, Procter Gamble, ITT, National Medical Enterprises, and the National Football League. Mr. Sayler is active in the American Bar Association, having served as chair of the Litigation Section, as a member of the Coalition for Justice and the Ad Hoc Committee on State Justice Initiatives. He was an ABA Presidential Emissary, Robert Sayler has an enormous depth of experience because he was there when it all started. He has had a fantastic career litigating billion-dollar coverage disputes for policyholders and is an absolutely top-flight trial lawyer and a wonderful oral advocate." Also recognized as a preeminent commercial litigator, Chambers noted that "he has carved a practice of exemplary diversity that takes in IP and antitrust litigation in strong measure." Clients speak of him as "a mast you can lash yourself to in the most stormy of seas, in triennial surveys, where he continues to teach advocacy and insurance law. Mr. Sayler has authored dozens of articles and book chapters on insurance coverage issues, ADR, civility, trial strategies, and oral advocacy skills.