Robert oversees and coordinates the firm’s successful, award-winning trial and appellate briefing team, as well as takes the “lead pen” on many of the firm’s most critical written court submissions. He also argues many of those issues in court. His current practice areas include Fair Labor Standards Act cases (overtime and wage litigation recovery), pharmaceutical products liability litigation, state government Medicaid fraud recovery and asbestos exposure liability cases.
Noteworthy successes on the firm’s behalf include:
South Texas College of Law
2001
University of Houston
1990
Before joining the firm in 2007, Rob practiced on the defense side of the bar for six years with an emphasis on trial and appellate briefing on behalf of large multinational corporations, state agencies and local governments, industry groups, and individuals.
While a defense lawyer, Rob drafted successful briefing to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in high-profile litigation brought by the original Marlboro Man’s family against Philip Morris, represented a noteworthy former Merrill Lynch analyst in the Enron shareholder litigation, successfully briefed First Amendment and wrongful termination issues relating to the City of Houston’s controversial police chase policy in a Fifth Circuit appeal on the city’s behalf, as well as assisted in defending the world’s wealthiest man and his related business interests in two multimillion-dollar tortious interference lawsuits filed in Texas.
Before joining the firm in 2007, Rob practiced on the defense side of the bar for six years with an emphasis on trial and appellate briefing on behalf of large multinational corporations, state agencies and local governments, industry groups, and individuals.
While a defense lawyer, Rob drafted successful briefing to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in high-profile litigation brought by the original Marlboro Man’s family against Philip Morris, represented a noteworthy former Merrill Lynch analyst in the Enron shareholder litigation, successfully briefed First Amendment and wrongful termination issues relating to the City of Houston’s controversial police chase policy in a Fifth Circuit appeal on the city’s behalf, as well as assisted in defending the world’s wealthiest man and his related business interests in two multimillion-dollar tortious interference lawsuits filed in Texas.
South Texas College of Law
2001
University of Houston
1990