Robert B. Port

As a partner with Hahn Loeser, Robert B. Port focuses his practice on business litigation, complex commercial disputes, and construction law. Rob has extensive experience in business tort litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, nationally, including breach of contract, tortious interference with contractual relations, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of fiduciary duty. Rob has represented clients nationally in class-action lawsuits. In the construction area, Rob has experience in handling claims regarding additional costs and scheduling impacts, pre-litigation claims management to mitigate risk and reserve the client’s potential future claims for additional compensation or contract time extensions, assisting clients in obtaining certification under various Ohio and federal programs for minority or disadvantaged business entities, and defending clients against decertification for these state and federal programs.

Rob also has significant experience in analyzing business financial information and developing damages models based on both lost profits and business valuation.

Rob has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and worked as a research-and-design engineer for over a decade before switching careers.

Accolades

• Lawyers Title Company v. Title365 Company, et al., Case No. 37-2014-00032795-CU-BT-CTL (Cal. Super. Ct., San Diego Cty. Aug. 14, 2015), Successful settlement.
• France v. Ticor Title of Washington, Inc., Case No. 12-2-25688-8 (Wash. Sup. Ct. Dec. 2015), obtained complete defense verdict.
• Krause, et al. v. Chicago Title Insurance Company, Case No. 0516-CV30246, (MO Cir. Ct., Jackson Cty. Jan. 30, 2013), defeat of $211 million punitive damages claim; favorable settlement following jury trial.
• Nations Title Co. of Cal. v. Security Union Title Ins. Co., Case No. BC426001 (Cal. Sup. Ct., Los Angeles Cty. May 2013), Complete defense verdict.
• Hancock v. Chicago Title Insurance Company, Case No. 3:07-CV-1441-D (N.D. Tex. Aug. 22, 2007), Successful defeat of class certification.
• Chicago Title Insurance Company v. Magnuson, et al., Case No. 2:03-CV-368 (N.D. Ohio April 23, 2003), Compensatory and punitive damages totaling over $43 million; rev’d 487 F.3d 985 (6th Cir. 2007), remanded for a new trial on compensatory damages only.
• Security Title Agency, Inc. Pope, Case No. CV 2003-020507 (AZ Sup. Ct. Oct. 27, 2003), Compensatory and punitive damages totaling $12.6 million; aff’d 219 Ariz. 480 (App. 2008).

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  August 15, 2019
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  August 10, 2017

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  Partnering and Joint Venture (ODOT Bonding Education Program)

  March 15, 2023
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  Opportunity of Joint Venture Formation with MBE/WBE/DBE Entity

  February 24, 2022
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  Ohio’s Encouraging Diversity, Growth and Equity Program and Recent Revisions

  November 13, 2020
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  What to Do When Your Employees Are Dive Bombed By Falcons

  June 20, 2019
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  Change in Ohio Law Regarding Aiding and Abetting Tortious Conduct

  March 05, 2013