About Robert
Robert D. Houghton is an Attorney and Senior Vice President at S&I whose work focuses on litigation, primarily medical malpractice defense and products liability. Bob is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in Medical Malpractice Law and Product Liability Litigation. Bob is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers, is a Master in the Dean Mason Ladd Inns of Court, and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Defense Research Institute, Inc., the Federation of Defense Attorneys and the Iowa Defense Counsel Association.
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Education
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, Cedar Rapids (2025)
- Lawyer of the Year: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Cedar Rapids (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, Cedar Rapids (2023)
- Lawyer of the Year: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Cedar Rapids (2016)
- Lawyer of the Year: Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants, Cedar Rapids (2014)
- Recognized: Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Recognized: Commercial Litigation
- Recognized: Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Recognized: Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Practice Area: Medical Malpractice Law
- Practice Area: Product Liability Litigation
- Listed as a Great Plains Super Lawyer®--2009 and 2011 -- Civil Litigation Defense
- Martindale-Hubbell, Inc. Rating “AV”