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Biography
Reid E. Robison is a veteran trial lawyer whose practice is concentrated in business-related litigation, including antitrust, securities, products liability, tax, white-collar criminal cases, contract and insurance disputes and multi-district and other complex litigation in courts throughout the United States.
His skills as a litigator have earned him inclusion in several prestigious industry publications, including The Best Lawyers in America (business litigation, antitrust law, and legal malpractice law), the Chambers USA’s Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and Oklahoma Super Lawyers. He has been perennially named to all three lists since their inaugural editions. Reid is also a Fellow and State Chairman of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an organization whose membership is limited to 600 of the world's best trial lawyers.
Reid is the immediate past president of the Oklahoma County Bar Association.
Following graduation from law school, Reid served as an assistant attorney general of the state of Oklahoma and as a captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Air Force.
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Representative Experience
- Successfully defended a former public laboratory chief executive officer charged with participating in alleged criminal conspiracies to commit Medicare fraud and securities fraud. In the former count, the government brought what is believed to be the first federal prosecution of laboratory executives for alleged violations of the anti-kickback law. The client was acquitted on both counts after a three-week trial.
- Successfully defended a Canadian company challenged by the state as unauthorized to own land in Oklahoma. Obtained an injunction against the Attorney General of Oklahoma, preventing an attempt to escheat the land.
- Acted as lead counsel in the first case to define “tender offer” under the Federal Securities Laws.
- Acted as lead counsel in the case in which the Tenth Circuit established the scienter pleading standard under the Federal Securities Laws.
- Served as lead counsel in an antitrust case brought by a grocery wholesaler against manufacturers which were accused of conspiring to prevent competition from entering the market.
- Defeated an attempt by the State Insurance Department to appoint a receiver for an insolvent insurer.
- Successfully defended manufacturers of consumer products of many kinds in cases around the country.
- Served as lead defense counsel in federal grand jury investigations and criminal cases involving business issues.
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