Attorney
Phoenix, Arizona, 85016
Robert Mandel, named one of the Best Lawyers in America®, is a seasoned, peer-reviewed attorney with nearly 27 years of experience vigilantly, zealously, and effectively representing clients in complex disputes pending in trial and appellate courts throughout the nation. Mr. Mandel’s appellate cases frequently involve a panoply of business, constitutional, and public law issues, conflicting legal doctrines and public policies, and robust trial court records. He spearheads appeals from final judgments, preliminary injunctions, and other interlocutory decrees, petitions for writs of certiorari or mandamus, appellate motion practice, and amicus curiae briefs. Astute clients avail themselves of Mr. Mandel’s appellate experience before the trial court action concludes, however. In those circumstances, he collaborates with the trial team to avoid an unfavorable outcome and to optimize the record for appeal by crafting the jury instructions, composing bench memoranda, formulating post-trial motions, presenting oral argument, and more.
Beyond his notable appellate practice, Mr. Mandel is a veteran business litigator. Over nearly three decades, he has represented an array of public and private companies and individuals in disputes involving claims of statutory, common law, and constructive fraud, negligence and negligent misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, business interference, unfair competition, false advertising, trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, shareholder and corporate claims, conversion, breach of private and public contracts, unjust enrichment, fraudulent transfer, construction design defect, together with a variety of real property claims. Mr. Mandel’s clients represent a wide variety of traditional and emergent industries and business sectors.
He has handled litigation and appellate matters on behalf of clients in Arizona’s cannabis industry. Prior to joining Zuber Lawler, Mr. Mandel was a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he was team leader of the firm’s Phoenix appellate team, before co-founding Mandel Young PLC, an appellate boutique. He began his legal career in New York City, practicing there for a decade. Mr. Mandel writes and speaks frequently on a wide variety of trial- and appellate-related issues.
