Our Practice
Bishop Partnoy LLP is a law firm with a unique mission: to serve our clients based on academic research, data-driven insights, and rigorous economic analyses. Our partners have decades of experience working as professors, litigators, bankers, experts, consultants, and government officials. We have taught at leading law schools and business schools, and have written important articles that have defined and reshaped corporate governance practices, and securities class action and fiduciary duty litigation.
Our partners have extensive experience working with investors in a wide range of litigation in federal and state courts and in arbitration. We have been involved in many of the most complex, highest-stakes corporate and securities cases since the 1990s, and have worked with dozens of the world’s most sophisticated investors, corporations, and government entities.
Our partners are admitted to the New York and District of Columbia bars and have appeared on briefs in leading cases. We have two main areas of practice:
- Fiduciary duty litigation
- Securities class actions
Combining Law, Economics, and Data Analytics
Theory Meets Practice
We fill an important gap by bringing academic expertise to litigation. Our partners have experience with complex issues in litigation related to event studies, valuation, loss causation, estimation of damages, and questions of disclosure materiality.
Data Analytics in Litigation
We bring significant expertise in financial and statistical analyses to every case and investigation, and deploy cutting-edge market surveillance to help protect investors. We specialize in cases that benefit from quantitative analysis.
Novel Approaches
Our partners' unique expertise in law, financial economics, and data analysis enables us to find new legal approaches and solutions that might not be apparent to other law firms or attorneys.
Investor Protection
Our practice is founded on a core belief in investor protection, and we embrace the role of private litigation in protecting investors. Investors have rights and should vigorously defend those rights.
Team
Robert E. Bishop, Attorney
Associate Professor, Duke Law School
PhD/MA/MPhil - Yale University
JD/MBA - Columbia University
AB - University of Chicago
Bobby brings a distinguished record of public service. Most recently, he was the senior advisor on financial markets at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he played an integral role on economic relief efforts. Before his doctoral studies, he advised a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to graduate school, he served in the Middle East and East Africa with the U.S. Department of Defense. He previously clerked on the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Frank Partnoy, Attorney
Adrian Kragen Professor, Berkeley Law
JD, Yale University
BA/BS, University of Kansas
Frank has represented individual and institutional investors in a wide range of business and securities disputes since the 1990s. He was a litigator at Covington & Burling LLP and has been a consulting lawyer and expert in dozens of the largest and most complex cases for more than two decades. He was a derivatives specialist at Morgan Stanley before becoming a law professor. He has published dozens of widely-cited academic articles and several books. He now holds the Adrian A. Kragen Chair in Law at UC Berkeley.
Daniel Taylor, Non-Attorney Professional
Arthur Andersen Professor, The Wharton School
PhD, Stanford University
MA, Duke University
BA, University of Delaware
Daniel is the world's leading scientific expert on insider trading, and he brings extensive expertise on corporate disclosures, economic materiality, fraud prediction, and market surveillance. He has published extensively on these topics in leading academic journals; led seminars at dozens of top business schools across the globe; and won numerous academic and industry awards. Most recently, his research on insider trading served as the basis for the SEC's new rules on 10B5-1 trading plans; the SEC's decision to mandate electronic filing of Form 144; and the introduction of the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act in the US Senate.