Founding Partner
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Banking Litigation
- Personal Injury
- Medical Malpractice
- Contract
- Real Estate
- Family Law
- State, County and Municipal Lobbyists
Address: 444 S. Flower Street
Suite 1800
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2919
Tel: (213) 489-0028
Fax: (213) 489-0552
Email: rmcneill@imwlaw.com
Robert H. McNeill, Jr. obtained his undergraduate degree from Virginia State College in 1962. He did postgraduate work in Public Administration at California State University, Los Angeles. Mr. McNeill obtained his Juris Doctor Degree from Southwestern University Law School in December 1978. He is one of the founding partners of Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt, A Professional Law Corporation.
In May of 1979, Mr. McNeill was admitted to the State Bar of California. He has served as a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles and as Deputy District Attorney for the County of Los Angeles. He was appointed to the Los Angeles County Commission on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in 1993, and is now serving his fourth four-year term on motion by the Honorable Yvonne B. Burke. Mr. McNeill served as a Deputy County Assessor from 1963 to 1977. He served as a member of the Los Angeles County Capital Case Fee Committee from 1993 to 1998 by appointment of the Supervising Judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court. Mr. McNeill was appointed to the Board of Directors of the California Science Center in Exposition Park by California Governor Gray Davis in 2001 for a four-year term, ending in January 2005. He was elected by the Board of Directors to serve as a member of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission.
From 1991 to the present, Mr. McNeill guided the firm’s Banking and Commercial litigation team.
Mr. McNeill has tried numerous jury trials during his legal career. He has successfully litigated matters in the areas of personal injury, medical malpractice, contract, business commercial disputes, real estate, criminal, and family law. His extensive trial experience has been in Federal and State Courts. He served as co-counsel in the successful litigation of a multimillion dollar health care class action lawsuit on behalf of insured men and women which settled in 1999 and has won multimillion dollar awards/settlements for Personal Injury clients. He successfully defended two death penalty cases in the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Memberships and Communtiy Service
- Counsel, African American Unity Center
- Counsel, Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade Black United Fund
- Los Angeles County Commission on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
- Former Board of Directors of the California Science Center in Exposition Park
- Former Member, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission
- Registered Lobbyist, City, County, and State
Awards and Recognition
- Selected as one of The Top 100 Attorneys in the state of California for 2006 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal
Speaker / Instructor
- Legal commentator, National Cable Television News
Professional Activities
- Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Member, Consumer Attorneys of California
- Member, National Bar Association
- Member, John M. Langston Bar Association
