Industries
Insurance
Directors & Officers Liability Insurance

Education
J.D.  Harvard Law School 1979, cum laude, Editor, Harvard Law Review
B.A.  Yale University 1976, cum laude, with distinction

Bar Admissions
California
District of Columbia

Court Admissions
U.S. District Court - C.D. California
U.S. District Court - E.D. California
U.S. District Court - N.D. California
U.S. District Court - S.D. California
U.S. District Court - District of Columbia
U.S. District Court - E.D. Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals - 4th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals - 6th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals - 7th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals - 8th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals - 9th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals - District of Columbia Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association
Orange County Bar Association

Community Organizations
Board Chair, The Pegasus School, Huntington Beach (2005-2007)
Constitutional Rights Foundation Peer Court Attorney Advisor, Corona del Mar High School
Yale Admissions Office, Alumni Schools Committee
American Youth Soccer Organization Coach (1999-2005)

Clerkships
U.S. District Court - S.D. New York
Honorable Lloyd F. MacMahon

 
Robert  M. Pozin,  Partner

Orange County
(949) 622-2701
(949) 622-2739


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Bob Pozin is the managing partner of Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP’s Orange County, California office.  He joined the firm in 1986 and became a partner in 1989.  Before coming to the firm, Mr. Pozin was law clerk to Chief Judge Lloyd F. MacMahon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and a litigation associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC.

For over 20 years, Mr. Pozin’s practice has focused principally on directors and officers liability insurance and other forms of professional liability coverage. He has represented insurers in hundreds of complex matters arising out of D&O and fiduciary liability exposures including securities actions, shareholder derivative suits, ERISA actions, bankruptcy trustee litigation, merger and acquisition litigation, SEC and other regulatory proceedings, financial institution insolvencies, employment claims, and health care industry business practices litigation.  He has litigated coverage issues in trial and appellate courts, and has represented insurers in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, in California and throughout the country.

Mr. Pozin has published several articles on issues involving D&O insurance.  He has spoken at industry conferences and client in-house presentations on insurance issues and on the substantive law of disputes underlying insurance claims, such as securities and bankruptcy law.


Publications
1/1/2000  “Bankruptcy and Its Impact on D&O Insurance,” ABA Torts and Insurance Practice Professionals’, Officers’ and Directors’ Liability Committee News
1/1/1993  “Allocation: Four Recent Cases Restore the Balance Between D&O Insurers and Insureds,” Mealey’s Litigation Report
1/1/1986  “Computer Evidence at Trial,” ABA National Institutes
1/1/1985  “Internal Corporate Investigations,” in A.A. Sommer, Jr., Ed., Securities Law Techniques (Ch. 119), Matthew Bender
1/1/1985  “Bankruptcy Trustee and Examiner Investigations,” in A.A. Sommer, Jr., Ed., Securities Law Techniques (Ch. 120), Matthew Bender
1/1/1979  “Corporate Crime: Regulating Corporate Behavior Through Criminal Sanctions,” 92 Harvard Law Review 1227-1375, Note
1/1/1978  “Intracorporate Conspiracies Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1985(c),” 92 Harvard Law Review 470-90, Note

In The News
2/20/2008  Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP Elects New Management Committee Members
3/23/2007  RDB Appoints Sally Gere to New Role of General Counsel; Elects New Management Committee Members

RDB Alerts
D&O Liability
4/9/2008 Court Denies Class Certification for Failure to Prove Loss Causation
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