Lawyer Bio : Robert T. Numbers II

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Robert T. Numbers II

"Bob"

Raleigh

Bob is an attorney in Womble Carlyle’s Business Litigation Practice Group. Since joining the firm in 2005, Bob has focused his practice on litigation matters at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts. He approaches each matter he handles in a way that aligns with the client’s business objectives, and in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible.
 
Below are examples of matters Bob has handled during his time with Womble Carlyle:
 
Appellate Experience
 
  • A group of taxpayers believed that the IRS improperly assessed millions of dollars of taxes against them. Bob was a member of a team of attorneys who handled all aspects of the tax dispute, from filing the complaint in federal district court to obtaining a decision from the United States Supreme Court in the clients’ favor.
  • After the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued an opinion which drastically altered the scope of immunity afforded to local municipalities under state law, Bob drafted a Petition for Discretionary Review and Merits Brief to the North Carolina Supreme Court seeking reversal of the Court of Appeals’ opinion.
  • Bob has drafted briefs and participated in oral argument in a number of cases at the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
 
Federal Court Experience
 
  • When a prominent Washington, D.C. law firm and a prisoners’ civil rights group instituted a class action on behalf of over 1,300 prisoners at a privately run correctional facility, the facility operator turned to Bob to defend its interests. Bob was responsible for developing, implementing, and executing the strategy that saw this case dismissed before class certification or discovery began.
  • A local school board, faced with allegations that they had violated the statutory rights guaranteed by state and federal law to a child with a disability, relied on Bob to ensure that the favorable administrative decision it had received at the state court level was not reversed by a federal court. Bob and a number of Womble attorneys and staff analyzed several thousand pages of hearing transcripts and documents to prepare a defense of the school board’s interests that resulted in a favorable decision from the District Court.
  • Bob has served as local counsel in a variety of patent litigation matters in Federal Courts across North Carolina.
 
State Court Experience
 
  • Bob obtained a defense verdict in North Carolina State Court in favor of a public official sued for wrongful death by the estate of a pretrial detainee who was allegedly left unsupervised and unconscious for over fourteen hours.
  • Bob has represented a number of clients in disputes with general contractors involving breach of contract claims and liens placed on property.
 
Alternative Dispute Resolution and Other Matters
 
  • After a dispute arose over a customer loyalty program, Bob successfully represented a client in a multi-million dollar breach of contract arbitration proceeding before the American Arbitration Association.
  • Bob assisted in the preparation of a client for testimony before United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
 
Bob is one of three contributors to Womble Carlyle’s North Carolina Appellate Blog. The blog highlights developments in the appellate courts that affect business interests in North Carolina. The contributors focus on civil decisions of the North Carolina Supreme Court and the North Carolina Court of Appeals, as well as civil decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that interpret or apply North Carolina substantive law.

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Professional Activities

DRI – Voice of the Defense Bar, Member, 2012-Present.
Steering Committee, Triangle Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, 2011-Present.
Member, NC State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2010-Present.
Admitted to the North Carolina State Bar in 2005.
Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits; the United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina.
 

Civic Activities

Board Member, Wake Forest University Catholic Community.

Education

B.A., 2002, Political Science and Economics, Wake Forest University, with honors.
 
J.D., 2005, University of Notre Dame, cum laude, Notre Dame Law Review.