Robert Langdon

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A fierce advocate for his clients, trial attorney Bob Langdon has been recognized as one of the top personal injury litigators in the country, having successfully tried cases from coast-to-coast on behalf of plaintiffs.

For more than 40 years, Bob has devoted his practice to representing individuals and their families in cases where defective vehicles or products have caused serious injury or death. Bob has actively pursued the world’s largest corporations for causing deaths and serious injuries to innocent Americans.

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Described as a “natural” in the courtroom, Bob has served as lead counsel in some of the nation’s significant personal injury trials and has obtained multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf of clients nationwide. In 2000, he was one of only eight lawyers in the United States to spearhead cases against Ford/Firestone.

Bob has been inducted as a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and has been recognized with some of the United States’ highest honors for attorneys. His leadership in the profession has led him to serve as an Executive Board member of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG), as President of the Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers and as a past member of the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice.

Since 1985, Bob has been nationally board-certified in trial advocacy. He speaks regularly at many seminars throughout the country, teaching other lawyers various successful trial techniques. His lectures on trial advocacy and civil litigation have been featured in law school classrooms such as Chicago-Kent, Loyola Chicago, Missouri, St. John’s, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley, and others.

Bob has successfully litigated matters from coast to coast related to automotive defects. This has involved taking on many of the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers. His experience includes cases involving defective airbags, seat belts, defective tires, roofs, fuel systems, braking systems, steering components, electronic stability control and collision avoidance technology, auto seat defects, crashworthiness, occupant protection, and other vehicle safety defects. As a leader of many L&E case teams, he works with engineering experts to investigate whether defective design, manufacturing defects, or inadequate warnings contributed to serious injuries or fatalities and pursues claims designed to improve vehicle safety while obtaining compensation for injured clients.

In Maryland, Bob was the lead attorney in a $59 million verdict in Kumar v. Toyota. This case set legal precedent regarding defective vehicle design after a reclined seat passenger slid under his seatbelt and suffered catastrophic leg amputations. At the time, this was the largest verdict in state history.

In 2011 he served as lead attorney in Castillo v. Ford, obtaining a unanimous jury verdict after a six-week trial in San Bernardino County, Calif.  This $23.4 million verdict was against Ford Motor Company on behalf of a single mother who suffered permanent injuries as a result of a 2007 accident. (Case No. CIVRS 706262)

In the case, our client filed a lawsuit against Ford and the companies who manufactured and installed the tires on her 1997 Ford Explorer. Her lawsuit was based on a tragic car accident caused when the left rear tire on her vehicle “de-treaded” on a California freeway and the vehicle instantly became unstable and uncontrollable, forcing the Explorer to run off the freeway and roll down a steep embankment. The accident knocked Ms. Castillo unconscious and she suffered brain damage, and as a result of the accident was a quadriplegic, fully dependent on 24/7 care for the remainder of her life. At the trial Bob presented evidence that high level management at Fords world headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. were aware of similar wrecks caused by hidden handling defects. Specifically, they introduced evidence showing that Ford spent $3.5 million correcting the defect in Venezuela, but chose to ignore the fix recommended by its own engineers and not to spend the $500 million needed to fix the Explorers in North America.

Bob represents victims of railroad crossing accidents nationwide involving passenger trains, freight trains, and commuter rail systems. These complex cases frequently involve allegations of negligent crossing maintenance, defective warning systems, inadequate signage, obstructed views, unsafe crossing design, and violations of federal and state railroad safety regulations. He works to hold railroads and other responsible parties accountable for preventable tragedies.

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