Rob Sparks is a member of the Strauss Troy litigation practice group. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country. The types of matters he focuses on involve general business disputes, data privacy and data breach investigations and litigation, consumer class actions, consumer protection, investment fraud, shareholder derivative litigation, corporate governance, and insurance litigation.

He also represents individuals and families in litigation seeking insurance coverage for treatment of mental health and substance use disorders and enforcement of mental health parity statutes.

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Greater Cincinnati Cyber Security Summit, Legal Aspects of Cyber Security

Planning for your family’s future: Is your life insurance sufficient?

Claims, Class Actions, and Arbitration Clauses, 14^th Biennial Consumer Bankruptcy Law Conference, University of Kentucky College of Law, 2018

FDCPA/FCRA Class Actions: Strategies and Pitfalls, American Bankruptcy Institute, Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar, Panelist, 2017.

Comment – A Survey of Kentucky Tort Reform, 17 N. Ky. L. Rev. 473 – 1990

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Kentucky Super Lawyer^®, 2008

Martindale-Hubbell AV^® Preeminent™ Attorney

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Site-Based Decision Making Council, Highlands High School

Kentucky Justice Association (1995-present)

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Representing a class of debtors in bankruptcy court against a financial institution for violation of the discharge injunction in which the Court certified a litigated class and later approved a class action settlement.

Co-lead counsel in federal court in Texas representing a class of life insurance policyowners challenging an insurer’s attempt to increase cost of insurance charges in the life insurance contract.

Representing a class of taxpayers challenging the state’s practice of collecting sales taxes.

Representing investors in derivative actions, claims for breach of fiduciary duty, and corporate governance matters in state and federal courts throughout the country.

Representing about 70 investors in a $100 million real estate Ponzi scheme that involved litigation and mediation in state court, federal court, and in mandatory arbitration. The representation also included negotiations with state and federal regulators investigating the Ponzi scheme. Part of the representation included obtaining a favorable unfair business practices award after a two-week arbitration against a major regional bank.

Representing people harmed when an insurance company changed the benefit definition in a supplemental insurance policy in an attempt to reduce benefits to policyowners and save millions for the insurance company.

Court-appointed lead class action counsel in a number of certified nationwide ERISA and insurance litigation cases.

Lead counsel in numerous nationwide settlement class actions.

Counsel on various multi-district litigation matters consolidated by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

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