Carl G. Roberts

215/864-8120 Telephone
215/864-9780 Facsimile
cgroberts@ballardspahr.com
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
1735 Market Street, 51st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7599

Carl G. Roberts is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Capital Recovery Group, Construction Group, Energy and Project Finance Group, Securities Group, and Technology and Emerging Companies Group.

Mr. Roberts has been involved in a wide variety of commercial and real estate litigation matters in federal and state courts in Pennsylvania and other parts of the country.  He focuses his practice on construction litigation and workout matters related to project finance and other lending transactions. He  has handled several complex actions concerning the construction or financing of facilities applying fluidized combustion technology to waste products and was involved for several years as owner’s counsel in construction litigation regarding a themed casino resort hotel in Nevada.

Mr. Roberts has considerable experience in electronic discovery issues and document management retention policies and practices.  He regularly counsels clients on such issues and the new Federal rules of E-discovery; and he has spoken at American Bar Association and industry conferences as well as continuing legal education courses on these subjects.

He also has significant experience in non-competition and trade secrets litigation, particularly involving technology concerns in computer software contracting litigation, securities transactions and broker dealer litigation.  He is an author and lecturer on applications of computer technology to the practice of law, computer use in litigation

and related ethics matters.

Mr. Roberts presently chairs the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section.  He previously served as a member of the Section’s Council and as columns editor for the Section magazine.  Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, Mr. Roberts practiced law and served as Assistant Managing Partner for Systems at another Philadelphia law firm.  In that capacity, he designed and coordinated the transition of that firm from one with no technology to one with fully integrated, state-of-the-art technology across six offices nationwide.

Mr. Roberts is the author of the Pennsylvania chapter of the second edition of the Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law (Aspen L&B; Cushman and Butler, eds) and co-author of the Pennsylvania chapter of LienLawOnline, a Web publication on mechanic’s lien laws. He has given seminars on law practice management issues both domestically for the ABA and abroad for CEELI. His article, “Ethical Considerations in Providing Legal Information Over the Internet,” was published in the 1997 Symposium Issue of The Professional Lawyer.

He is a member of the board and the past president of The Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble. He is a member of the board of Hillel of Greater Philadelphia and immediate past chairman of the Overseers Board for Hillel at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Roberts is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A. in Economics, cum laude, 1970) and the University of Pennsylvania (J.D. 1974).