Rob has been licensed to practice law since 1992 and during his career he has served as lead counsel in a wide variety of matters not only in Texas, but throughout the United States. Rob has tried over 70 civil jury trials, argued matters before numerous appellate courts, and served as lead counsel in many different national class action matters. Rob is committed to protecting the needs of his clients, giving candid and forward-thinking advice based on an understanding of his client's business, and being available to his clients when they need him regardless of the time of day or day of the week. As a business owner himself, Rob knows that a business owner wants to get honest advice on a timely consistent basis in the most economical manner possible.

Examples of Rob's clients or those who have hired Rob include local to national banks, lenders and financial institutions, individuals and entrepreneurs, local CEO's of small to large companies, small companies to Fortune 100 companies, trucking and transportation companies, individual landowners to commercial farm and ranching operations, authors, partnerships, manufacturers, restaurants, attorneys, athletes, inventors, property developers, and many different companies within the entertainment, hospitality, and food and beverage industry to name a few.

Rob is active in the community, both professionally in bar organizations and in helping out many wonderful charitable and community causes. Rob's community involvement includes serving at the request of the State Bar of Texas Bar President on committees, serving as a member of the Board of Directors for an entity with the Boy Scouts of America, Camp Summit, and local business organizations, and volunteering with many local charitable causes including the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans, Catholic Charities, and the Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas.

When it comes to Rob's business and commercial litigation experience, Rob has served as lead counsel in many 'routine' or ordinary business disputes to significant bet-the-company commercial matters throughout Texas. Rob's business experience additionally includes representing numerous lenders, servicers, and banks in a variety of debt collection, foreclosure related, and consumer related litigation. This depth of experience combined with Rob's own business knowledge and experiences from owning his own businesses has led many different CEO's, business owners, CFO's, and legal departments to trust Rob with their business and commercial litigation needs, as well as consumer financial service matters.

Over the years, Rob has gained invaluable experience in representing employers (both large and small) in almost every imaginable form of employment litigation. Rob's employment law practice encompasses document preparation, investigation, and litigation. As to Rob's experience within the area of document preparation for employers, Rob has prepared numerous employee handbooks and personnel policies, issue specific or technical policies, non-compete agreements, and a wide variety of employment agreements and contracts. Rob has led hundreds of internal employment investigations on behalf of his clients dealing with matters such as theft, discrimination, responding to EEOC investigations, government inquiries, whistleblower claims, and harassment to name a few. Rob has served as lead counsel in almost every imaginable form of employment litigation, including: FLSA, FMLA, whistleblower claims, 'Sabine-Pilot' claims, wrongful termination, and discrimination claims involving race, gender, pregnancy, age, sex, and handicap discrimination for both public and private employers. For the last several years, Rob has additionally prosecuted and defended many different claims involving non-compete agreements, theft of trade secrets and proprietary information, and non-solicitation agreements.

Rob routinely represents a large network of individual inventors as well as corporate entities in protecting their intellectual property rights. Over the years, Rob has served as lead counsel in trade dress or Lanham Act violations, theft of trade secret matters, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and patent infringement matters. Rob has additionally represented clients in licensing disputes and assignment matters, royalty assignments, inventor and ownership disputes, trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings, product clearance investigations and diligence, and trademark and advertising brand management. Areas of industry in which Rob has represented clients in intellectual property matters includes: telephone and communications, health and hospital services, banking, software design, hunting, agriculture, ranching, literature, food and beverage, and entertainment to name a few.

Because of his passion for the outdoors and ranching experience, Rob is often called upon those within the agricultural and ranching industry to provide needed legal advice and representation. Over the years, Rob has represented landowners, ranchers, horse and cattle owners, agricultural product manufacturers, heritage ranch owners, and commercial ranch and farming operations throughout Texas. As a member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, contact Rob to see if his knowledge and experience can help you with your agricultural legal issues.

Bar Admissions:

State of Texas, 1992; Oklahoma 1993-2002. United States Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits. United States District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western Districts of Texas; the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma.

Education:

Member:

• Texas Bar Association (Business Law, Consumer & Commercial Law, Intellectual Property);
• Dallas Bar Association (Judiciary, Publications, and Pro Bono Activities Committee);
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit;
• Cherokee Nation Bar & Bar Association;
• National Native American Bar Association;
• The William 'Mac' Taylor Inn of Court - Master of the Bench;
• Texas Association of Bank Counsel.

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Published Articles:

• "Class Action Litigation for Consumer Lenders and Financial Institutions," Practicing Law Institute, Consumer Financial Services Answer Book 2011 (2011);
• "The Insurer's Right of Reimbursement, If We Win - We Want Our Money Back," Texas Journal of Insurance Law (2003);
• "Stowers Liability: Should the Insurer's Evaluation Consider Non-Covered Claims or Personal Exposure to the Policyhlder?," Texas Journal of Insurance Law (2000);
• "Privacy Issues and the Polygraph Protection Act of 1988," DRI Employment Law Basics Monograph (1997);
• "Comparative Principles and Reverse Bad Faith - The Future of Bad Faith Litigation," 68 Okla.B.J. 1045 (1997).

Reported Cases:

• Howard v. Hooters of America, et al., 2008 U.S. Dist. Lexis 30776 (S.D. Tex. 2008);
• Leland Medical Centers v. Weiss, 2007 WL 2900599 (E.D. Tex. 2007);
• Garcia v. J.J.S. Enterprises d/b/a PDQ Drive-In Grocery, 225 S.W.2d 57 (Tex.App. - El Paso 2005, no pet.);
• Lowe v. Watersong Apts., 155 S.W.3d 445 (Tex.App. - Dallas 2004, no pet.);
• Southwest Key Program v. Carlos Gil-Perez, 81 S.W.3d 8 (Tex.App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 2001;
• Strum v. Phil Arm Ministries, Inc., 2001 WL 333228 (Tex.App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 2001);
• Judy Kay Ondrusek v. Ashford United Methodist Church, Inc., 2001 WL 289517 (Tex.App. - Tyler 2001);
• Nguyen v. T.S.A., 981 S.W.2d 900 (Tex.App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1998, no pet.);
• Drain v. Galveston Co., 999 F.Supp. 504 (S.D. Tex. 1997);
• Brashier v. Farmers Insurance Co., 925 P. 2d 20 (Okla. 1996);
• Cox v. Jones, 907 P.2d 1067 (Okla. 1995);
• Kitto v. Farmers Ins. Co., 39 F.3d 1192 (10th Cir. 1994).