Robert J. Kopka, has handled a wide variety of insurance defense matters for over 20 years, including bodily injury, personal injury, property damage, consumer fraud and breach of contract on behalf of insurance and self-insured companies as well as corporate companies.  He defends declaratory judgment actions on behalf of insurance companies and advises them regarding coverage involving environmental liability, among other things.  He has also defended toxic tort suits involving asbestos, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, paints and industrial coatings. Bob represents common carriers in hazardous waste and toxic spill litigation, and also directs the firm's transportation, including automobile, UM/UIM and trucking, FELA and consumer fraud defense practice.  He currently defends professional liability claims involving lawyers, doctors, real estate and insurance agents, title insurance companies and handles multi-party automobile, trucking and railroad claims involving significant exposure bodily injury and property damage claims.  Bob recently presented an appellate argument before the United States Supreme Court in an appeal involving federal jurisdiction.  He has also appeared before the Illinois and Indiana Supreme Courts and before several other federal and state appellate courts. 

He is admitted to practice law in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and is admitted in the United States Supreme Court and in numerous federal appellate and district courts.  Additionally, Bob is a member of the Federal Trial Bar and has been admitted pro hac vice, for the purpose of trying individual cases in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Maryland, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas and California.

Bob has been listed in Illinois Super Lawyers (2008-2009).  He is a founding member of the National Retail and Restaurant Defense Association (NRRDA) and a member of the Defense Research Institute, the Trucking Industry Defense Association, the Trial Counsel of America, the Counsel on Litigation Management, and Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc.. 

Bob is a frequent speaker on various topics, including tort reform, insurance coverage, litigation management techniques, alternative billing arrangements, premises liability, additional insured endorsement, admiralty, common carrier and warehouseman's legal liability.

Prior to forming Kopka, Pinkus, Dolin & Eads, P.C., and its predecessor firm Kopka, Landau & Pinkus, in 1999, he formed the firm of Landau, Omahana & Kopka, Ltd. in 1987.  Bob received his Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.