Robert W. Murphy is a complex consumer and class-action litigation attorney. He served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Florida College of Law in Gainesville, Florida, from 2009 to 2021 and currently serves as a clinical adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a past chair of the Consumer Protection Law Committee of the Florida Bar and was a board member, secretary and Florida state chairperson for the National Association of Consumer Advocates. He is currently a board member of the Florida Bar Foundation. He has been the faculty chair of the Practising Law Institute’s consumer pro bono program in San Francisco since 2009.
Murphy has spoken at many seminars and conferences hosted by a variety of state and national organizations, including the Florida Bar, the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the National Consumer Law Center, the National Association of Legal Aid and Public Defenders and the U.S. military’s Judge Advocate Corps, as well as college and law schools.
In 2016, the Florida Bar recognized Murphy as the Consumer Attorney of the Year.
Murphy attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and received his B.A. cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1984 and his J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law in 1987. He is admitted to practice in Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin and Georgia, as well as various U.S. District Courts. He has served as lead or co-lead counsel in over 200 certified representative actions providing over a billion dollars in settlement benefits. The range of his class litigation includes actions against auto manufacturers, mortgage companies, banks, telemarketers and most recently fin-tech lenders.
He is a competent long-distance runner, having completed most of the major marathons in the United States at least once. He is an avid trekker and has hiked/climbed in Patagonia, Africa, Nepal, Europe, Russia and most of the United States. He has three daughters, including a 2022 University of Virginia School of Law graduate.