Robert Infelise

Mr. Infelise is a senior trial attorney specializing in high stakes business litigation. He has litigated complex environmental, federal and state taxation and commercial litigation matters. In an era in which few matters actually go to trial, Mr. Infelise has tried over thirty-five matters to judgment. On the environmental side, he was lead counsel for the lender and developer plaintiffs in RTC v. Rossmoor, 34 Cal.App.4th 771 (1995) one of the few environmental cost recovery actions tried to a jury. He was actively involved on behalf of the developer plaintiff in Bixby Ranch Co. v. Spectrol Electronics, the seminal California case involving stigma damages.

In addition to his litigation practice, since 1994 Mr. Infelise has been a member of the faculty at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches The Law of Hazardous Waste, the Environmental Law Writing Seminar, Environmental Law and Policy, and the Workshop on Development and the Environment. He was the Interim Director of the Environmental Law Program in 2003.

Mr. Infelise graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1980. He then joined the Los Angeles office of Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP. In 1998, Mr. Infelise opened the firm’s San Francisco office and serves as managing partner.

Robert Donald Infelise is teaching the following courses in Fall 2024:

• 244.2 sec. 001 - Remedies
• 271 sec. 001 - Environmental Law & Policy

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Spring 2025	270.72 sec. 001	Pathways to Carbon Neutrality
	271 sec. 001	Environmental Law & Policy
	273.4 sec. 001	Introduction to the Law of Hazardous Waste and Substances
Spring 2024	271 sec. 001	Environmental Law & Policy	View Teaching Evaluation
	272.3 sec. 001	Climate Change and the Law	View Teaching Evaluation
Fall 2023	244.2 sec. 001	Remedies	View Teaching Evaluation
	271 sec. 001	Environmental Law & Policy	View Teaching Evaluation
	271.5 sec. 001	Environmental Law Writing Seminar	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2023	270.72 sec. 001	Pathways to Carbon Neutrality	View Teaching Evaluation
	271 sec. 001	Environmental Law & Policy	View Teaching Evaluation