ROBERT L. CIOCIOLA

Bob’s practice concentrates on insurance coverage and complex business litigation including D&O and professional liability (lawyers, accountants, architects, engineers), unfair trade claims, corporate fiduciary, construction, complex tort and environmental cases, and bankruptcy. He also has extensive background experience in merger and acquisition litigation, mass product liability cases, antitrust matters, and employment litigation. In addition to handling trials and appeals before the federal and state courts of Massachusetts, Delaware, New Hampshire, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Ohio, Bob has conducted administrative, arbitration, and mediation proceedings and supervised cases in ten other states, including California, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, and New York.

Bob has served as a faculty member for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education programs and has authored a chapter entitled "Minority Liability for Breach of Fiduciary Duties in a Close Corporation" published in Business Torts within the Company, MCLE Books (1998). He is also a certified mediator by the Delaware Superior Court.

Through a process of peer evaluation, Boston Magazine and New England Magazine have named Bob a “Super Lawyer” for the New England region. In addition, Corporate Counsel Super Lawyer has designated Bob a “Corporate Counsel Super Lawyer” in business litigation.

Education

• Harvard Law School, JD, 1980
• University of Delaware, BA, 1977; history

Admissions

• Massachusetts
• Maine
• Delaware
• United States District Courts: District of Massachusetts, District of Maine, District of Delaware
• United States Courts of Appeal: First Circuit, Second Circuit, Third Circuit, Seventh Circuit
• United States Supreme Court

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Delaware Bar Association
• Maine Bar Association

Representative Reported Cases

• Gartner, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co., 2010 WL 918075, (D.Conn. 2010)
• Evanston Ins. Co. v. Layne Thomas Builders, Inc., 635 F.Supp.2d 348 (D.Del. 2009)
• Sullivan v. Southland Life Ins. Co., 67 Mass.App.Ct. 439, 854 N.E.2d 138 (2006)
• Veryfine Products, Inc. v. Phlo Corp., 124 F.Supp.2d 16 (D.Mass. 2000)
• Hochberg v. Zoecon Corp. 421 Mass. 456, 657 N.E.2d 1263 (Mass. 1995)