Firm Leadership

Robert Mills

Robert Mills received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971, and his law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law in 1974. Mr. Mills founded the Mills Law Firm to represent investors, consumers, and tort victims nationwide; the firm specializes in class actions and public interest litigation in consumer fraud, securities, employment law, product liability, environmental law, and breaches of fiduciary duty involving trusts and limited partnerships.

Since 1991, the Mills Law Firm has initiated cases which have recovered over a billion dollars in cash and value for clients and class members.

In addition to his law practice, Mr. Mills has extensive experience as an entrepreneur in the business and investment arena. He founded and operated a successful development firm which refurbrished historic buildings and a securities brokerage firm, which quickly became one of the nation's largest traders of investment partnerships. Mr. Mills has also managed, underwritten, and sponsored investment partnerships, written prospectuses, negotiated acquisitions, appraised a variety of complex investment interests and has served as an expert witness in securities litigation.

Mr. Mills has published articles concerning investment, tax, consumer and class actions, and is recognized by the financial media as an authority on investment, partnership and liability issues. He has taught courses at San Francisco State University, serves as a speaker for educational and professional organizations, and has appeared on radio and television talk shows.

His extensive business experience and legal background give Mr. Mills a perspective that is invaluable in discovering, understanding, and winning complex cases involving consumer and investment fraud.

In addition to being a member at the State Bar of California, Mr. Mills is admitted to practice before many different U.S. District and Courts of Appeal across the nation. Mr. Mills is also a member of the National Association of Consumer Attorneys and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.

Harry Shulman

Harry Shulman received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1980, cum laude, and his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1985. Harry began his law practice in 1986 at Holland & Hart, a large firm based in Colorado, where he was made a litigation partner in 1992. He practiced at Holland & Hart until 2000, when he met his wife and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Harry moved to Legal Strategies Group in Emeryville, where he practiced commercial litigation for three and a half years, before moving to the Mills Law Firm in early 2004. Harry, Annie and their two kids now live in San Francisco.

Harry's litigation practice, now spanning 20 years, has touched on a wide variety of substantive matters. He has focused on product liability and commercial fraud. His current focus is on plaintiffs¹ class action matters, particularly consumer class actions. Harry has significant trial experience, having successfully tried many cases to verdicts before juries and judges for both plaintiffs and defendants. He is admitted in both California and Colorado, and various federal courts in those states.

Carolyn Beasley

Named as one of the best lawyers in the Bay Area by Bay Area Lawyer Magazine, Carolyn represents clients in a wide variety of substantive areas including employment law, misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark law, unfair business practices, and business contracting/negotiation.

Carolyn began her legal career trying criminal cases on behalf of the federal government with the US Attorney’s Office before joining Morrison & Foerster’s litigation department.  While there, she earned several important jury verdicts, including one of the largest verdicts ever rendered against police officers in the state of California for the wrongful death of an immigrant farm worker, and numerous related constitutional violations.    

Carolyn has been litigating major class actions since 2001, and was a member of the litigation team in a landmark case against Wal-Mart that yielded a $172 million dollar verdict for California employees in 2005.  Thereafter, in 2006, Carolyn was appointed by a federal judge to serve as co-lead counsel in employment class actions pending against Wal-Mart in over thirty states across the nation.

In addition to her extensive class action and trial experience, Carolyn has successfully drafted and argued numerous appeals.  In May of 2008, Carolyn appeared before the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts where she successfully challenged three complex adverse rulings issued by the lower court judge that had served as the death knell of the class action against Wal-Mart.  The Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in her clients’ favor on each ground.  Just a few months later, as co-lead counsel of a 30 state consolidated action Carolyn negotiated a $65-85 million settlement with Wal-Mart which was subsequented approved by the court.  In July 2009, Carolyn was appointed as lead counsel representing a class of 90,000 Wal-Mart employees in Massachusetts and subsequently succeeded in winning a $40 million settlement on their behalf.  

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