Robert M. Stein

Clients trust partner Bob Stein to efficiently and effectively handle a diverse range of legal issues, including business and securities disputes, real estate and development related disputes, construction matters, regulatory issues, and successfully navigating a wide range of other legal matters on behalf of businesses and individuals. 

Bob is a versatile and practical attorney who draws on broad legal knowledge and problem-solving skills, first-chair trial experience, and years of serving as lead counsel in eight and nine figure legal disputes.  He leverages these traits to resolve complex legal issues for his clients, who include corporate leadership, entrepreneurs, property owners, real estate developers, local municipalities, religious institutions, and others.  Bob has extensive experience representing clients in Florida state courts, federal and bankruptcy courts around the country, and in arbitrations.  He frequently sources and collaborates with consultants and experts across the country to achieve his clients’ litigation strategies.  With knowledge of commercial interactions gleaned from multiple angles, Bob also advises clients liability, governance, finance, and real estate development issues, and assists with complex transactions. 

Bob is licensed to practice in all Florida state and federal courts, the United States Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Louisiana State Courts, and the Eastern District of Louisiana. Bob also has extensive experience with mediation and negotiation, giving him insight into a full spectrum of tools to solve clients’ problems.  Before joining Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez, P.A. in 2010, Bob gained experience on securities and Federal Torts Claims Act matters in New Orleans. 

Representative Litigation 

• First-chaired Bert J. Harris Act case for the City of Miami and obtained a complete defense judgment after a 5-day bench trial against major law firm. 

• Represented victims in Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting in Southern District of Florida action which resulted in one of the largest Federal Torts Claims Act settlements of all time with the Department of Justice. 

• Obtained complete defense judgment in favor of corporate officers and directors after 8-day federal bench trial in financial forecast and software revenue recognition dispute.  Later, favorably settled second lawsuit against same defendants brought by bankruptcy trustee in the District of New Jersey. 

• Obtained final judgment and an award of sanctions and prevailing party attorneys’ and costs against perpetrator of 7-figure fraudulent scheme who targeted the elderly. 

• Favorably settled complex public company shareholder dispute brought in federal court. 

• Successfully settled major multi-year litigation relating to developer turnover obligations for project in Aventura, FL. 

• Obtained final summary judgment utilizing argument which relied upon Australian law in federal court dispute between owners of alternative health care company in Tampa. 

• Able to settle 8-figure potential liability of historic Brickell-based Miami church through strategy which included passage of clarification by the Florida legislature. 

• Successfully defended major Fortune 200 hotel operator in construction defect lawsuit. 

• Favorably settled Middle District of Florida federal director liability suit relating to management of fuel bunkering company in Orlando. 

• Prosecuted securities fraud case in the Southern District of Florida and obtained favorable settlement. 

• Obtained final summary judgment in state court business dispute between members of LLC which developed a large multi-family development in Miami Beach 

• Successfully defended corporate leadership in high-stakes disputes arising out of governance and finance decisions. 

• Favorably settled numerous construction defect and other lawsuits on behalf of some of Florida’s most prolific developers. 

 

Representative Transactions 

• Capital Raise and Organizational Documentation for Major Mixed-Use Hotel/Commercial Development near Miami International Airport 

• Capital Raise and Organizational Documentation for Multi-Family/Commercial Development in Coconut Grove, FL 

• Capital Raise and Organizational Documentation for Assisted Living Facility in Aventura, FL 

 

Recognitions, Awards, and Civic Activities 

• Martindale Hubbell, AV Preeminent Rated 

• Leads Chambers Spotlight Ranked Commercial Litigation Team 

• Super Lawyers’ “Rising Stars” (2017 and 2018) 

• Super Lawyers’ “Top Rated Securities Lawyer” 

• Member of the Spellman-Hoeveler Chapter of the American Inns of Court 

• Member of the Board of Directors and Litigation Committee of Friends of the Everglades 

• Member of the Miami-Dade County Solid Waste Advisory Committee 

• Speaker for Miami Beach Bar Association’s Law Day 2012 and 2014 

 

Education 

• Tulane University School of Law, Juris Doctorate; Certificate in Sports Law 

• Visiting student at UCLA School of Law, Mediation Clinic 

• Humboldt University of Berlin-Tulane University, Summer Program on Intercultural Dispute Resolution 

• London School of Economics and Political Science, Master of Science 

• Tulane University, Bachelor of Arts, cum laude