Bob Ellis is a Member in Dykema’s litigation group. Mr. Ellis’s practice focuses on business and commercial litigation in the areas of contract disputes, automotive dealer and supplier disputes, insurance, financial services, residential and commercial real estate, business torts, trade secrets, and recall and warranty cost-recovery matters. 

Mr. Ellis represents some of the nation’s largest companies, including automotive manufacturers, insurance companies, and financial institutions. 

Mr. Ellis also has experience as in-house counsel, having spent most of a year seconded to a national consumer financial services company, at which he coordinated the defense of a nationwide litigation docket and supervised outside counsel in multiple jurisdictions.

Bar Admissions

Michigan

Wisconsin

Education
University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., cum laude, Moot Court Board, Law Review University of Southern California, B.A., magna cum laude

Significant Accomplishments
While in law school, he was a Note and Comment Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review, a competitor and coach with Wisconsin's Moot Court Board, and a Teaching Assistant in the Legal Writing Department. He was also an intern for Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

• What's Past is Prologue: Applying Lessons from the Financial Crisis to the Future of eMortgage and eNote Litigation

  By Robert Ellis |November 2018