Robert M. Cearley, Jr
Robert M. Cearley, Jr. is a 1969 graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he served as assistant editor of the Law Review. He has been engaged in an active trial practice for 31 years and is certified in civil trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is Past President of the Arkansas Bar Association, recipient of its 1997 Golden Gavel Award, a member of the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association, past member of its Board of Governors and recipient of its Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award for 1997. He has been elected by his peers as a member of the American Board of Trial Advocacy and American College of Trial Lawyers. He has also been included in The Best Lawyers in America and the Martindale Hubbell's Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Lawyers.
He is a member of the American Judicature Society (Board of Governors 1995-1998) and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He has lectured at continuing legal education seminars in areas of commercial litigation, lender liability, civil rights, insurance, personal injury, and legal ethics. He authored the majority opinion as Special Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in First National Bank of Crossett v. Griffin, 310 Ark. 164,832 S.W.2d816(1992). Cearley was lead counsel in McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education, 529F.Supp.1255 (E.D. Ark.1982) (the "Creation Science Case"), a landmark decision invalidating state law mandating the teaching of Creation Science in Arkansas Public Schools. Recent product liability cases he has handled involving catastrophic injuries caused by air rifles have been featured on ABC television's 20/20 and in the Lawyers Weekly USA and the ATLA Products Liability Law Reporter.
Robert M. Cearley, Jr. has over thirty years experience representing plaintiffs in claims of death or serious injury caused by negligence and defective products. His practice focuses on personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, medical malpractice, and commercial transactions, breach of contract and business torts.
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