Northern Illinois University
College of Law

Bob Arnold is pleased and gratified to be teaching Insurance Law at his law school alma mater. 

Bob is a 1986 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Northern Illinois University College of Law.  While in law school Bob was Student Works Editor of the NIU Law Review, and he and his partner won the College of Law Moot Court competition and competed nationally as NIUCOL's National Moot Court team.  At graduation Bob won the Corpus Juris Secundum award for outstanding contributions to legal scholarship. 

Following graduation Bob spent two years as a law clerk for Justice Howard Ryan of the Illinois Supreme Court.  He then joined the Chicago office of the national firm Lord Bissell and Brook (n/k/a/ Locke Lord) as an associate, and in 1997 he was elected Equity Partner.  Bob later joined a number of Lord Bissell colleagues in a start-up spinoff firm known as Walker Wilcox Matousek LLP, where he was an Equity Partner until his recent retirement. 

Over his 35 years in private practice Bob's career had a strong insurance focus.  He represented US and international insurers in disputes across the country over coverage for claims arising from asbestos, environmental pollution, hurricanes, terrorism, the September 11 attacks, sexual abuse, professional malpractice, COVID contamination and more.  He has appeared in state and federal trial and appellate courts in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Connecticut, New York, Florida, the District of Columbia, Colorado, Louisiana, California, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, and has advised on insurance claims in almost every other state.