“The Alexander firm currently serves as national coordinating counsel and trial counsel for one of America's largest pharmaceutical chains (and world's largest corporation) in the Vioxx litigation. Mr. Alexander was one of a select few national trial counsel in the Baycol litigation. The Alexander firm is exclusive Oklahoma trial counsel in the OxyContin litigation and is also appellate counsel in those appealed OxyContin cases, defending the successful results the firm obtained at the trial level.”

A 1976 graduate of Harvard Law School, the Alexander firm's principal Robert H. Alexander, Jr. has more than 25 years of courtroom experience as a trial lawyer. The Alexander firm's practice focuses regionally and nationally on the defense of Fortune 500 clientele against complex product liability claims. These matters include claims against pharmaceutical manufacturers in which entire product lines are under attack and the cases are involved in multi-district litigation (MDL) proceedings or involve large coordinated numbers of state cases.

The Alexander firm currently serves as national coordinating counsel and trial counsel for one of America's largest pharmaceutical chains (and world's largest corporation) in the Vioxx litigation. Mr. Alexander was one of a select few national trial counsel in the Baycol litigation. The Alexander firm is exclusive Oklahoma trial counsel in the OxyContin litigation and is also appellate counsel in those appealed OxyContin cases, defending the successful results the firm obtained at the trial level.

The Alexander firm defends product liability cases generally, representing major oil companies as well as manufacturers of various power tools, appliances and products containing asbestos. The Alexander firm has also defended many of the world's largest automobile manufacturers.

The Alexander firm's attorneys include licensed members of the bar in Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, California and Illinois. The Alexander firm's attorneys include law school graduates of Notre Dame, Georgetown, University of Tulsa, University of Oklahoma, University of California at Davis and Harvard. The ethnic and gender composition of the Alexander firm's attorneys include Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, women and men.

Even not including the firm's founder Mr. Alexander, all of the Alexander firm's attorneys are experienced. (See Attorneys). Ranging from a former prosecutor with 8 years experience through counsel with 15, 17 and in excess of 25 years experience, the Alexander firm's attorneys have a wide range of professional backgrounds and experiences which uniquely equip them as seasoned trial lawyers and experienced counsel in defending complex matters. The Alexander firm's managing attorney also heads the firm's mediation practice. She too has in excess of 25 years experience and is a respected Oklahoma administrative law judge and was a member of the committee which drafted the Oklahoma Rules on Mediation which have been adopted by the Oklahoma Supreme Court and apply to mediations statewide.

The Alexander firm is a leader in technology and has a secure internal computer system which is state of the art. The Alexander firm was selected by the United States district Court as part of the Beta Group to launch the federal court's electronic filing system for the Western District of Oklahoma. The Alexander firm's Executive Administrator / Information Technology Manager is Systems Engineer trained by IBM. She is A+ Certified, Microsoft Certified and is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of occupational education.

Mr. Alexander began his career as a law clerk for the honorable William J. Holloway, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. He formed The Law Office of Robert H. Alexander, Jr. p.c. in 1988 after he gave up a partnership in a major Oklahoma law firm to establish his own firm. (See Our History). Mr. Alexander was the first Black to be hired by a major Oklahoma law firm and was later the first Black to become partner in a major Oklahoma law firm. Mr. Alexander was a finalist for a federal district court judgeship in 1986. He began his firm with no clients and his mother as the firm's receptionist and sole staff. Mr. Alexander's firm grew from that humble beginning to its present level of responsibilities and now occupies the entire 24th floor of one of Oklahoma's most historic buildings.

The 2006 edition of The International Who's Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers judged the firm's principal, Mr. Alexander “the number one practioner in Oklahoma for product liability legal expertise” based on a canvass of lawyers and clients. The history of the Alexander firm's practice has been well chronicled in feature articles appearing in such national publications as The National Law Journal (“Zero to Fortune 500 Clients”) and Lawyers Weekly USA (“Small Firm Lawyer Does the Impossible”).

The Alexander firm also has an active amicus practice. Mr. Alexander has worked on many amicus briefs for the Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC), a consortium of over 100 major product manufacturers formed to file amicus briefs on critical issues of product liability. An emeritus member of the Executive Committee of PLAC (one of few outside counsel to receive that honor), Mr. Alexander has also served as a member of PLAC's Case Selection Committee, which determines the cases in which PLAC will file amicus briefs. One of the Alexander firm's amicus briefs changed Oklahoma law in an area which had plagued automobile manufacturers, (seat belt legislation barring evidence of non seatbelt use in a crashworthiness case). Clark v Mazda Motor Corp., 68 P. 3d 207 (Okla. 2003). Published decisions involving the firms' work also include: Prince v BF Asher Co., et al., 90 P3d 1020 (Okla 2004); Holt v Deere & Co., 24 F 3d 1289 (10th Cir. 1994); Agee v Purdue Pharmaceuticals., et al., No. CIV-03-0787-HE (W.D. Okl. 2004); Obsolete Ford Parts v Ford Motor Company, 306 F. Supp. 2d 1154 (W.D. Okl. 2004); Primas v The City of Oklahoma City, et al., 958 F.2d 1506 (10th Cir. 1992); Gigger v Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., et al., 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22622, aff'd 202 F. 3d 282 (10th Cir. 1999).

The Alexander firms' principal, Mr. Alexander frequently presents nationally on trial skills. As a faculty member, Mr. Alexander demonstrated and taught trial skills to young lawyers at the 2002 Trial Academy of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC). Each year since then he has been invited to return to the Trial Academy to speak. Mr. Alexander was also a member of the faculty at the 2003 ABA “TIPS” Trial Academy held at the National Judicial College. A former co-chair of the American Bar Association Product Liability Litigation Committee, Mr. Alexander chaired and also served as defense counsel in the ABA's “Trial of the Century: Litigating the Titanic” at the annual ABA meeting in Toronto in 1998. Two of the Alexander firm's attorneys were trial lawyers for the defense in that case. Mr. Alexander selected all of the plaintiff and defense counsel for the program and coordinated and determined the historic facts, legal parameters and factual scenarios to be observed by all counsel.

Mr. Alexander selected and invited Mr. Johnnie Cochran to serve as the lead plaintiff's counsel in the Trial of the Century. Mr. Cochran ended his closing argument with the signature phrase theme, “If you design or build a boat, it must be able to stay afloat.” The mock trial was extensively covered nationally and internationally in all media and was much acclaimed. Mr. Alexander provided interviews on the Trial of the Century to media representatives from at least eight countries and numerous states. He devoted more than 1500 hours to the research, planning and presentation of this program over eighteen months. Mr. Alexander has also been an invited speaker at DRI and PLAC programs and has lectured before other legal and corporate groups throughout the nation, including corporate in-house counsel legal department retreats.

The Alexander firm is equally proud of the fact that Mr. Alexander was the 100th anniversary baccalaureate speaker at Oklahoma City's Douglass High School where he was named one of its 100 most prominent graduates during its one hundred year history. A recent $100,000.00 endowment to the University Of Oklahoma College of Law made by Mr. Alexander's firm has made the Alexander firm by far the largest sponsor of minority legal scholarships at the state's largest law school. (See Community). Mr. Alexander also gives scholarships in the name of his parents to underprivileged high school students of all races. Mr. Alexander has served as a member of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation. He was featured among prominent African American attorneys in Oklahoma's history in a Special Centennial Issue of the Oklahoma Bar Journal celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Mr. Alexander has returned twice to his alma mater, Harvard Law School, as an invited speaker (1998, 1977).

Mr. Alexander received his undergraduate training at Howard University where he graduated in the top 1% of his class and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, despite working 55 hours per week to help pay for his education and take the financial burden off of his parents who also had two other children, respectively in medical school and college. Mr. Alexander and his wife Annita M. Bridges (their firm's managing attorney) were married in 1979. Their two daughters Blayne and Blake are, respectively, a sophomore at Duke University and a high school junior.