Robert (“Bo”) D. Phillips, Jr. is a partner in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of Alston & Bird.  His practice focuses on defending clients in class actions in various jurisdictions around the country, and he has served as lead counsel in more than 100 putative class actions over the past two decades.  His recent cases include issues such as alleged false advertising and unfair competition, insurance sales practices, life insurance, and annuity product disclosures and policy performance, product liability, food and nutrition labeling, and a range of employment issues.  Bo has written extensively and spoken frequently on ethical issues in litigation practice, and he is a contributor to the American Bar Association’s treatise “A Class Action Practitioner’s Guide” and author of that book’s chapter entitled “Ethical Issues in Class Action Litigation.”  Bo is a 1978 graduate of Duke Law School and received his undergraduate degree in 1974 from Davidson College.