Robert Infelise

Robert Infelise serves as a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he has taught since 1994 while concurrently practicing as a senior trial attorney and managing partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP's San Francisco office. His academic role includes affiliation with the Environmental Law Program, for which he served as Interim Director in 2003, and his professional practice focuses on high-stakes environmental, taxation, and commercial litigation matters.

Education:

• B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1977), Phi Beta Kappa
• J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law (1980)

Mr. Infelise's scholarly expertise centers on Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law, with specialized teaching in The Law of Hazardous Waste, Environmental Law and Policy, and the Workshop on Development and the Environment. His academic work is deeply informed by landmark litigation experience, including lead counsel roles in RTC v. Rossmoor (a rare jury-tried environmental cost recovery action) and Bixby Ranch Co. v. Spectrol Electronics (a seminal California case on stigma damages).

Professional contributions:

• Tried over thirty-five complex cases to judgment across environmental, tax, and commercial domains
• Interim Director of UC Berkeley's Environmental Law Program (2003)
• Founder of Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP's San Francisco office (1998)