Bob has recently advised on legislation in mine safety, environmental, severance tax and other areas. He has also represented an energy company in litigation involving a methane mitigation agreement, an arbitration of a mitigation-banking program and a mediation in an earn-out provision of an acquisition agreement. Bob also represents a major U.S. coal company as to it mining subsidiary in Colombia.  His recent representations also include the representation of an energy company with overriding royalties in gas wells and a natural gas purchase agreement with a bankruptcy debtor. He also represented a supplier as a non-debtor party to a coal supply agreement with a bankruptcy debtor, which included a reclamation claim. Bob is also advising a major coal company in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He also often works with the U. S. Commercial Service/ U.S. Department of Commerce to host international representatives to promote U. S. exports. 

Bob has written on bankruptcy and creditors' rights topics for various trade and legal publications, including West's Publishing, The Journal of Commercial Bank Lending, The American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Norton's Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, The Bankruptcy Strategist and the Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice.

Bob is a frequent lecturer on such legal topics as energy, officer and director liability, telecommunications, aviation, intellectual property, environmental, health care, real estate and bankruptcy issues. In this regard, he has made presentations nationwide for trade groups, lawyers, and students, including for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Third Circuit Judicial Conference, the International Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Association of Credit Management, the American Bar Association, the Commercial Law League, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, and the National Business Institute.