He was regarded by his colleagues in the legal profession as a skillful and passionate trial advocate. This law firm that he founded has, for over thirty years, represented working people and their families in cases that have taken on the largest corporations and insurance companies. His passion was always to see that victims of industrial accidents, defective products, or professional malfeasance had zealous representation that gave them access to just compensation.

Bob was a relentless advocate for organized labor. He spearheaded the project to build the St. Andrews Newman Center at U.C. Riverside not only for the benefit of the students and faculty, but as a way of showing the quality of union craftsmanship and the generosity of the labor movement to a worthy community project. This was the catalyst for his fifteen year campaign to persuade the Diocese of San Bernardino to adopt a policy defining just wages for construction workers on all its projects, a policy that was officially proclaimed by Bishop Gerald Barnes in 2002.