Robert W. Denton

Robert W. Denton is an experienced business litigator who specializes in all forms of complex business litigation. He has special expertise in antitrust, intellectual property, soils defect litigation and professional liability cases, including legal and accounting malpractice cases. He has tried cases in both state and federal courts and has extensive appellate experience. Mr. Denton is a member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association (“ABA”) and contributed to the ABA’s treatise, Antitrust Law Developments (Fourth) which was published in 1997. He has also written several articles on the statute of limitations defense in legal malpractice cases, the most recent of which appeared in the February 1999 issue of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine.

Mr. Denton received his J.D. degree in 1983 from the University of Minnesota where he graduated magna cum laude and is a member of the Order of the Coif. (Order of the Coif is a national academic honor society, similar to Phi Beta Kappa, whose members consist of those law graduates who finished in the top ten percent of their law school class.) He was an Article Editor of the Minnesota Law Review and was the recipient of the Coopers & Lybrand scholarship award. After graduation, Mr. Denton served as a law clerk to The Honorable William C. Canby, Jr., Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Denton was a member of the litigation department and antitrust group in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he practiced for nine years before joining Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz & Hogan. Mr. Denton is "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Articles Written by Robert W. Denton:
"For Whom the Limitations Toll"

"When it Hurts: Recent court decisions have failed to provide a bright-line test for determining actual injury in legal malpractice"

"The Evolution and Inevitable Demise of the Extrinsic-Intrinsic Test for Determining 'Substantial Similarity' in Copyright Cases"