Robert Niemann is a trial lawyer in the litigation department concentrating his practice in the areas of complex business and commercial litigation, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, unfair business practices, products liability, and environmental toxic torts. Mr. Niemann is co-chair of Keller and Heckman's national litigation practice, along with Arthur S. Garrett III. He is also the co-chair of the Food Law Committee of the Litigation Section of the California State Bar Association, along with Christopher Van Gundy.
Mr. Niemann has extensive experience with class actions, multidistrict litigation, mass torts and major complex cases. He has represented many clients as their national and regional coordinating counsel handling hundreds of cases and coordinating the matters with attorneys throughout the United States. He is often called upon to try the bellwether cases which determine the direction of the mass tort litigation.
