Biography robert montgomery jr attorney

(1930 - 2008)
Bob Montgomery was the first lawyer to ever beat Big Tobacco, and who chalked up more than 65 million-dollar judgments - by his own count and squabbled with nearly every lawyer he ever partnered.

They called Bob the "Big Daddy of All Trial Lawyers," but also called him their mentor and friend. He was a giant in the legal community and the community at large. He helped hundreds of people in desperate need financially, and he did it without fanfare.

Although he started out defending insurance companies, hospitals, and airlines, Bob earned his reputation challenging those same corporations.

He was the lead lawyer in Florida's $13.5 billion settlement with tobacco companies in 1997. He earned million-dollar judgments for Kimberly Bergalis and others who contracted AIDs from Jensen Beach dentist David Acer in 1991 in a case that earned national headlines.

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"I'm a tragedy lawyer," Bob said in a 1999 interview. "I deal in children's deaths. I deal in airplanes going down."

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