Robert Eglet
About Robert Eglet
Robert T. Eglet is one of the most accomplished trial lawyers in the United States and the driving force behind Eglet Law's nationally recognized results. As lead trial counsel in the firm's major cases, he has secured more than $7 billion in verdicts and settlements for victims of corporate negligence, product defects, catastrophic injuries, and mass disasters. With a career win rate of over 98% across hundreds of civil jury trials, Robert has obtained the largest injury verdict in America on three separate occasions. His record-setting results include a $3.08 billion verdict in a water contamination case, the largest product liability verdict in Nevada history; $1.3 billion in opioid-related settlements for the State of Nevada, among the highest per capita in the country; $1.2 billion in verdicts stemming from the largest medically caused Hepatitis C outbreak in U.S. history; and an $800 million settlement on behalf of victims of the 1 October Las Vegas mass shooting. In the aftermath of the 2008 Hepatitis C outbreak, Robert targeted the pharmaceutical companies behind the contaminated drug rather than clinics and doctors, bypassing Nevada's medical malpractice caps and securing four major verdicts that led to nationwide healthcare reforms, including changes to CDC guidelines and pharmaceutical packaging protocols. Robert is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, limited to the top 100 plaintiff trial lawyers in the United States, and holds the highest AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He has been named Trial Lawyer of the Year twice by the Nevada Justice Association (2005, 2012), National Trial Lawyer of the Year twice by the National Trial Lawyers (2013, 2026), and inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame (2026). He has delivered over 60 jury verdicts exceeding $1 million, more than any other trial attorney in Nevada history. Robert serves on the Board of Regents of the University of the Pacific and has funded scholarships and the Eglet Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution at McGeorge School of Law.
Notable case results
A Clark County jury awarded $3.8 billion against Real Water on March 21, 2025, after finding the Las Vegas alkaline water company liable for poisoning consumers with hydrazine-contaminated product that caused acute liver failure, autoimmune disease, and death.
Retained as outside counsel to the Nevada Attorney General, Eglet Adams drove more than $1.1 billion in opioid settlements across 12 agreements with over 40 defendants, including Walgreens, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and Johnson & Johnson.
Robert Eglet of Eglet Adams served as lead counsel for approximately 2,500 of the more than 4,400 plaintiffs who secured an $800 million settlement from MGM Resorts International over the October 1, 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting, one of the largest victim-compensation settlements in U.S. history.
A Clark County jury ordered Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services to pay $524 million after finding the UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries negligently credentialed a gastroenterologist whose unsafe injection practices at his Las Vegas endoscopy clinics caused the largest medically caused hepatitis C outbreak in American history.
A Clark County jury awarded Henry and Lorraine Chanin $505 million against Teva Parenteral Medicines and Baxter Healthcare after finding that both companies supplied oversized propofol vials to Las Vegas endoscopy clinics, enabling the reuse that infected Henry Chanin with hepatitis C.
A Clark County jury awarded five hepatitis C patients $182.6 million against Teva, Baxter Healthcare, and McKesson after finding the companies negligently distributed oversized propofol vials to Las Vegas endoscopy clinics without adequate warnings against multi-patient reuse.
A Clark County jury awarded $41.5 million to a young man who sustained third-degree burns over 90 percent of his body after the motocross clothing he wore failed to protect him from a fuel fire, finding LeMans Corporation liable for selling gear that was not fire-retardant.
In a water contamination case against Real Water -- largest product liability verdict in Nevada history
In opioid settlements for the State of Nevada
In three verdicts from the 2008 Las Vegas Hepatitis C outbreak, the largest medically caused outbreak in U.S. history
For victims of the 1 October Las Vegas mass shooting against MGM Resorts
Product defect verdict -- largest personal injury verdict in America in 2013
Largest personal injury verdict in America in 2010
Fourth largest personal injury verdict in America in 2011
That led to industry-wide reforms in off-road motorcycle gear manufacturing
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
