Robert R. Henssler, Jr.

Robert Henssler is a partner in Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s San Diego office, where he focuses his practice on securities fraud and other complex civil litigation. He has obtained significant recoveries for investors in cases such as Under Armour, Blackstone, and J.C. Penney.

Most recently, Bobby led a team of Robbins Geller attorneys in obtaining a $434 million settlement in In re Under Armour Sec. Litig. The case was previously dismissed with prejudice in 2019, but then resurrected through a highly unusual procedural maneuver, a successful motion for an indicative ruling: asking the federal judge who had dismissed the case to issue an indicative opinion informing the Fourth Circuit that he would revive the original case if it were remanded to him. Over the next five years, the Robbins Geller team defeated defendants’ motions for summary judgment and to exclude plaintiffs’ expert witnesses. The case settled just weeks before a jury trial was set to begin in Baltimore, Maryland. The $434 million recovery is the second largest securities-fraud settlement ever in the Fourth Circuit and is among the top 50 largest such recoveries in U.S. history.

Bobby was also lead counsel in Schuh v. HCA Holdings, Inc., which resulted in a $215 million recovery for shareholders, the largest securities class action recovery ever in Tennessee. The recovery achieved represents more than 30% of the aggregate classwide damages, far exceeding the typical recovery in a securities class action. Bobby has had many other successful results, including in In re Valeant Pharms. Int’l, Inc. Sec. Litig. ($1.21 billion), Marcus v. J.C. Penney Company, Inc. ($97.5 million recovery), Landmen Partners Inc. v. The Blackstone Group L.P. ($85 million recovery), In re Novatel Wireless Sec. Litig. ($16 million recovery), Carpenters Pension Trust Fund of St. Louis v. Barclays PLC ($14 million settlement), and Kmiec v. Powerwave Technologies, Inc. ($8.2 million settlement), to name a few.

Before joining the Firm, Bobby served as a Federal Public Defender for three years in the Southern District of California. He tried cases before the United States District Court and briefed and argued numerous appeals before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. While at Federal Defenders, Bobby worked on various types of criminal cases, including financial fraud, narcotics trafficking, and alien smuggling. He obtained extensive trial experience at Federal Defenders, including a not guilty verdict and a hung jury. 

Bobby was awarded California Lawyer of the Year for 2022 and was selected as a Top 100 Lawyer in 2024 by the Daily Journal. He has also been named a Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Trailblazer by The National Law Journal, a Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500, both a Leading Litigator in America and a Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer by Lawdragon, and named to the Best Lawyers in America list by Best Lawyers®. Bobby received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of New Hampshire and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law. 

• Leading Litigator in America, Lawdragon, 2024-2025
• Best Lawyer in America, Best Lawyers®, 2025
• Top 100 Lawyer, Daily Journal, 2024
• Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer, Lawdragon, 2020-2021, 2023-2024
• California Lawyer of the Year, Daily Journal, 2022
• Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Trailblazer, The National Law Journal, 2020
• Recommended Lawyer, The Legal 500, 2018-2019

• University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., 2001
• University of New Hampshire, B.A., 1997

• California
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California

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