Robert T. Eglet
Senior Partner
REglet@mainorlawyers.com

• Trial Lawyer of the Year.

• The Largest Personal Injury Verdict Ever in Nevada.

• The 38th Largest Verdict in America in 2007.

• More Multi-Million Dollar Verdicts than any Trial Attorney in Nevada History.

• Honored as One of “The Top 100 Trial Lawyers” for the Past 2 Years by “The American Trial Lawyers Association.”

• The Only Attorney in Nevada to be named as one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” For the Past Three Consecutive Years.

• Recipient of the “Badger Award”, The Nevada Justice Association’s Most Honored Award.

• The Highest Possible Rating from the Martindale-Hubble Law Directory (AV) and Inclusion in the Martindale-Hubble Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, The Definitive Guide to Americas Leading Lawyers.

• Named as Both a Nevada and Mountain States “Super Lawyer.”

• A Member of the “Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.”

• Honored as a “Pillar Of Justice” by The Nevada Justice Association.

• Only the Fifth Attorney in Nevada to be named as a “Benefactor” by the Nevada Law Foundation.

• Honored as One of the “Elite Lawyers of America.”

• Lead Trial Counsel in Nearly a hundred Civil Jury Trials With Only 3 Losses; an Astounding 97% Winning Percentage in Trial.

• More Than a Quarter of a Billion Dollars in Verdicts and Settlements in the Past Seven Years Alone.

• 27 Verdicts in Excess of a Million Dollars

These are only a sampling of the reasons Mainor Eglet Cottle’s Senior Partner Robert Eglet is the most respected and sought after trial attorney in Nevada. A testament to this is that Robert receives referrals from hundreds of attorneys from around the United States to try their cases for them.

Robert heads the trial team at Mainor Eglet Cottle and is the lead trial counsel on all major cases.

Robert is a past President of The Nevada Trial Lawyers Association and served on its Board of Directors for three years. Robert currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Nevada Law Foundation where he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since being appointed by the Nevada Supreme Court in 2005. Robert is on the Executive Committee for The American Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Nevada Access to Justice Commission.

Robert is routinely asked to lecture around the country to various trial attorney organizations and bar associations on trial practice for large catastrophic injury and death cases.

A resident of Nevada since childhood, Robert graduated from Western High School in Las Vegas. Thereafter, Robert earned a degree in economics, with honors, from the University of Nevada. Robert went on to receive his law degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he graduated in the top 10% of his class. Robert is also a graduate of Hastings School of Law College of Trial Advocacy and the National College of Advocacy.

After completing his legal education, Robert returned to Las Vegas joining one of Nevada’s oldest and most prestigious law firms where he spent the next four years developing his skills as a trial attorney. Robert then started his own law firm specializing in defending personal injury, insurance bad faith and wrongful death cases. Over the next decade Robert successfully built his firm from two to twelve attorneys, becoming one of the most respected defense firms in Nevada At the same time Robert continued to try countless cases.

In 2000 Robert sold his defense practice to his partner and began his partnership with his current partners where he specializes in representing the significantly injured, victims of insurance bad faith and wrongful death clients.

When Robert is not pursuing the rights of injured victims, he and his wife Tracy Eglet, also a Partner with Mainor Eglet Cottle, split their time between their three teenage children and the charitable organizations they support.