Las Vegas Trial Lawyer- Robert T. Eglet
Robert heads the trial team at Eglet Adams and is the lead trial counsel on all major cases. The awards and accomplishments listed below are only a sampling of the reasons why this firm’s Founding Partner, Robert Eglet, is the most respected and sought-after trial lawyer in Nevada. A testament to this is that Robert receives referrals from hundreds of attorneys from around the United States to try their cases for them. Robert is also routinely asked to lecture around the country to various trial attorney organizations and bar associations on trial practices for product defect, large catastrophic injury, and wrongful death cases.
Robert is a past President of The Nevada Trial Lawyers Association and served on its Board of Directors for three years. He serves on the Board of Trustees at Citizens For Justice. He is on the Executive Committee for The National Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Nevada Access to Justice Commission. Robert also serves on the National Advisory Board of the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America and is their Regional Director for Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. Robert is a sustaining Pillar of Justice and Guardian of Justice of the Nevada Justice Association.
A resident of Nevada since childhood, Robert graduated from Western High School in Las Vegas. Thereafter, Robert earned a degree in economics, with honors, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Robert went on to receive his Doctor of Law (J.D.) degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he graduated in the top 10% of his class. Robert is also a graduate of University of California, Hastings College of the Law Trial Advocacy Program, and the National College of Trial Advocacy.
After completing his legal education, Robert returned to Las Vegas joining one of Nevada’s oldest and most prestigious law firms where he spent the next four years developing his skills as a trial lawyer. Robert then started his own law firm specializing in defending catastrophic injury, insurance bad faith, and wrongful death cases. Over the next decade Robert successfully built his firm from two to twelve attorneys, becoming one of the most respected defense firms in Nevada. At the same time, Robert continued to try countless cases.
In 2000, Robert sold his defense practice to his partner and began his partnership with his current partners where he specializes in representing the significantly injured, victims of product defects and defective drugs, commercial trucking accidents, insurance bad faith, and wrongful death clients.
When Robert is not pursuing the rights of injured victims, he and his wife Tracy Eglet, also a partner with Eglet Adams, split their time between their three grown children and the charitable organizations they support within the community.
Education
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Trial Advocacy
Honors: Top 10% of the class
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA
Juris Doctor, Trial Law
Honors: Top 10% of the class
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Bachelor of Science, with Honors
Major: Economics
Areas of Practice
- Personal Injury
- Products Liability
- Defective Pharmaceutical Drugs
- Commercial Trucking Accidents
- Wrongful Death
- Insurance Bad Faith
Bar Admissions
- Nevada
- U.S. District Court District of Nevada
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Professional Associations and Memberships
- The Inner Circle of Advocates, Member
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel (NADC), Founding Member
- Executive Committee for the National Trial Lawyers Association
- The Nevada Trial Lawyers Association (now “Nevada Justice Association”), Past President
- Nevada Justice Association (NJA), Member
- America’s Top 100 Attorneys, Lifetime Achievement Recipient
- The Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (APITLA), National Advisory Board Member
- Citizens For Justice, Board of Trustees
- American Association for Justice, Presidents Club Member
- Nevada Access to Justice Commission, Board of Trustees
- Regional Director of Litigation for APITLA for Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado
- American Society of Legal Advocates (ASLA), Member
- American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), Member
- Rue Ratings’ Best Attorneys of America, Best Attorney Lifetime Charter Member
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Member
- The Global Directory of Who’s Who, Top Lawyer Lifetime Member
- Distinguished Justice Advocates, Lifetime Charter Member
Honors and Awards
- Recipient of the 2020 Keith Givens Visionary Award for his work in achieving the $800 million settlement in the 1 October MGM shooting case
- Named a member of The Inner Circle of Advocates in 2018
- Named Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2013, by the National Trial Lawyers Association
- National Lawyer of the Year in 2010, by Lawyers USA
- Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2005 and 2012 by the Nevada Justice Association
- Only lawyer to ever be named Trial Lawyer of the Year twice
- The Largest Personal Injury Verdict in America in 2010 ($505 million) and 2013 ($524 million) to date
- 4th Largest Personal Injury Verdict in America in 2011, $186.2 million
- Only lawyer to ever have the largest personal injury verdict in America twice, two verdicts in the top 5 in America in two consecutive years & 3 verdicts in the top 5 in America in 3 out of 4 consecutive years
- The 38th Largest Verdict in America in 2007, $42 million
- The 2 Largest Personal Injury Verdicts in Nevada history
- Four Top 40 Verdicts in America
- More multi-million dollar verdicts than any trial attorney in Nevada history
- Lifetime Achievement Recipient, America’s Top 100 Attorneys
- Member of The Round Table – The 100 Most Influential Trial Lawyers in America
- Honored as one of The Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers The National Trial Lawyers Association
- Recognized as a Top 25 Mass Tort Trial Lawyer, Top 25 Class Action Trial Lawyer, Top 25 Products Liability Trial Lawyer, and Top 10 Trucking Trial Lawyer by The National Trial Lawyers Association
- Certified by the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
- The only attorney in Nevada to be named as one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America for four consecutive years
- Recipient of the Badger Award, the Nevada Justice Association’s most honored award
- The highest possible rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (AV) and inclusion in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, The Definitive Guide to Americas Leading Lawyers
- Named as both a Nevada and Mountain States Super Lawyer
- A member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Recognized as one of Rue Ratings’ Best Attorneys of America
- Named as one of America’s Top 100 Bet-the-Company Litigators by America's Top 100
- Honored as a Pillar of Justice by the Nevada Justice Association
- Only the 5th Attorney in Nevada to be named as a Benefactor by the Nevada Law Foundation
- Honored as one of the Elite Lawyers of America
- Recipient of the 2013 Thurgood Marshall Fighting for Justice Award for his tenacious effort, against overwhelming odds, in achieving success in the fight for justice
- Lead Trial Counsel in more than 130 civil jury trials with only 4 losses; an astounding 97% case-winning percentage in trial
- More than $1.5 billion dollars in verdicts and settlements in the past 10 years alone
- 31 verdicts in excess of a million dollars
- Named one of the Top Lawyers 2014 by Desert Companion (October 2014 issue)
- Named one of the Readers’ Choice Awards Top 100 Men of the Year for 2015 by MYVEGAS Magazine (Fall 2015 issue)
- Named one of the Readers’ Choice Awards Top 100 Lawyers in Las Vegas for 2015 by MYVEGAS Magazine (Winter 2015 issue)
