Bob is widely recognized to be one of the best civil trial lawyers in the region. He has broad litigation experience in state and federal courts, including numerous multi-million dollar jury verdicts in both venues.
Bob regularly tries jury and non-jury cases ranging from major business and construction disputes to lawsuits involving environmental pollution, condemnation, trademark infringement, and labor-related suits including handicap, sexual harassment and race discrimination.
He received congressional appointments to the Air Force Academy and to West Point Military Academy, choosing the Air Force. He spent six years as an Air Force Survival Instructor. An honors graduate of Gonzaga School of Law, he has taught at local Spokane colleges including Gonzaga University Law School, and regularly gives trial practice seminars to other lawyers.
He is a former WSBA Bar Examiner. Named annually as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the area of Commercial Litigation, he is AV rated and a member of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. He was voted in 2005 by his peers as Spokane's Best Business Litigator as well as Spokane's Best General Litigator and in 2006 as Spokane's Best Construction Lawyer, along with his partner John Black, and once again as Spokane's Best General Litigator. In 2007, he was again named as Spokane's Best Lawyer in Business Litigation, as well as in Construction Law and was featured as one of 2007's and 2008's Best Lawyers. (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Living Magazine - September 2005, September/October 2006, October 2007 and 2008; Spokane Business Catalyst Magazine – November, 2006.)
He was also named as one of Washington's "Super Lawyers" as a business litigator for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. He was highlighted in a profile by his Alma Mater. (The Lawyer, Spring 2005 – Gonzaga School of Law.) He was selected for inclusion in LITIGATION 2009’s Best Lawyers Annual Guide to Commercial Litigation.
Bob has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, in the specialty of Commercial Litigation. For over a quarter of a century, Best Lawyers® has been regarded - by both profession and public - as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States.
He is an accomplished freelance outdoor writer, is one of two people in Washington State holding a NSCA Level II Certification as a Sporting Clays Shotgun Shooting Instructor, and as a Certified Youth Coach. He has won several State Sporting Clays Championships in both Washington and Idaho as a competitor.
Email:
bdunn@dunnandblack.com
