Robert K. Woo, Jr. (Bobby)

Bobby Woo focuses on product liability defense, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals and other consumer products.  For more than 30 years, he has life sciences manufacturers in individual, mass tort, and multi-district litigation.  He is a member of King & Spalding's Science Team, and as such works closely with experts to communicate complex scientific and medical concepts to juries, takes and defends expert depositions, and argues Daubert, Frye and Sargon motions.

Currently, Bobby is part of a team defending Coloplast in more than 300 filed cases in its female pelvic mesh litigation.  He represents the company in multi-district litigation, in post-MDL transferor courts, and in individual lawsuits.  He is also part of a King & Spalding team that is representing a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in litigation involving claims that a popular over-the-counter acid suppressant has caused various injuries.

Bobby has been voted by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America (Best Lawyers, 2021, 2023, 2024).  Bobby has also been recognized by Legal 500 (2010–2011) for Product Liability/Mass Tort defense in pharmaceutical and medical device cases. He has also received recognition in Georgia Super Lawyers magazine (2005–2007, 2009).

Bobby is active in pro bono representation, and in 2000 he received the H. Sol Clark Award, the highest pro bono award given by the State Bar of Georgia to an individual.   The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association awarded him the Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award, NAPABA’s highest honor, in 2002.  Bobby also received the inaugural Judge Alvin T. Wong Pioneer Award from the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association for his leadership in the Georgia APA legal community.  He is a past co-President of GAPABA.

Bobby has appeared on panels addressing issues such as the attorney-client privilege, expert witnesses and scientific evidence, professionalism, and civil procedure.  For more than 20 years, he has been responsible for training the firm’s new attorneys on efficient legal research and time management techniques.  He is also one of the lawyers in charge of the firm’s Life Sciences Roundtable series, a monthly webinar series featuring topics of interest to healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical device manufacturers, and also is the editor-in-chief of the firm’s annual Life Sciences CLE catalog.