Robert A. Shults

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Houston, Texas 77079

Cell: 713-***-****

Email: acuyot@r.postjobfree.com

General Liability Coverage

Construction Defect Liability Coverage

Oil & Gas Liability Coverage

Employer's Liability Coverage

Bad Faith Claims

Litigation

Environmental & Toxic Tort Insurance Coverage

My background as a prosecutor and civil litigator includes cases from death penalty to insurance coverage and all types of civil trial work. I have argued in the trial and appellate courts of Texas, including numerous cases in the Texas Supreme Court, as well as matters in the U.S. Supreme Court. My private practice includes representation of insurance carriers in sophisticated coverage cases as well as defending of their insureds and conducting investigations into possible fraudulent claims.

Education

Baylor University, B.A., 1970

University of Houston School of Law, J.D., 1975

Admissions

Texas

Affiliations

American Bar Association

Texas Bar Association

Texas Bar Foundation

Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel

History

While in law school at the University of Houston, served as the executive assistant to Senator Jim Wallace of Houston.

Represented the University of Houston before the Texas Legislature, the Legislative Budget Board, and other Texas governmental agencies.

Served as an assistant district attorney in Harris County, serving for most of my tenure in the White Collar Crime Division where our innovative approaches to investigation and prosecution were widely recognized.

After entering private practice, retained by the Special Investigations Committee of the Texas House of Representatives to investigate allegations of impropriety at various colleges and universities in Texas.

Have tried over one hundred jury trials to verdict and handled cases before most of the Courts of Appeals in Texas, several United States Courts of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court.

Chaired a committee of the American Bar Association’s litigation section dealing with insurance coverage matters involving environmental claims, and authored a chapter on using alternative dispute resolution in environmental claims in the book Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Litigator’s Handbook, published by the ABA and edited by United States Judge Nancy Atlas.

Recognition

Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Member

National Federation of Pachyderm Clubs - National President (official organization of the National Republican Party)

Child Advocates of Houston, former advisory board member

Life House – Houston, board member

Appointed in 2009 as a Commissioner of the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission by Governor Rick Perry

Co-Chair, CGL Subcommittee of the ABA Section of Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee (2015-2016)

KIWANIS Club of Houston, Past President

Outstanding Journal Article, Texas Bar Foundation

C Club of Houston, Past Officer

Houston Baylor Alumni Association, Past President

Publications

“Is the Piper Paid Gradually or Suddenly?: Selected Issues in ‘As Damages’ and the Pollution Exclusion Clause,” Law Journal Article Category Award, Texas Bar Foundation, 1994, 24 Texas Environmental Law Journal, Winter 1994

“Expert Witnesses in Environmental and Toxic Tort Cases,” 32 South Texas Law Review 414 (1995)

“Prelitigation Protocol for Environmental Insurance Claims,” (1996) (Joint Task Force of the Insurance Coverage Committee, Section of Litigation of the American bar Association)

“Alternative Dispute Resolution,” Author, Environmental Chapter, American Bar Association Book (1997)

“Pouring, Spilling, Storing and Dripping – Environmental Insurance Issues,” Texas Trial Lawyer Magazine (September 1997)

Coverage Issues Under CGL Policies for Environmental Claims Under Texas Law, 9 Environmental Claims Journal 99 (1997)

“Justice is Too Good for some People and Not Good Enough for Others – A Study of Juror Attitudes and Trends in Houston,” Houston Business Journal (April 1998).

“Occupying Forces – Limitations on the Pollution Exclusion as Applied to On-Site Damages, “9 Coverage 27 (1999)

“Concurrent Litigation – Send Money, Guns and Lawyers, the Stuff Has Hit the Fan,” Annual Insurance Law Institute (University of Texas Law School, 1999)

“Discovery in Multi-Party Cases,” University of Houston Advanced Civil Discovery Seminar (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003)

“Avoidance of Malpractice in Litigation,” University of Houston Advanced Civil Litigation Seminar (1999, 2001, 2003)

Amicus briefs in Texas Supreme Court for American Insurance Association in CBI v. National Union and Farmers County Texas Mutual Ins. Co. v. Griffin

“Primary and Excess Coverage, Key Policy Provisions and Exclusions,” University of Houston Seminar on Advanced Insurance and Tort Claims (2006-2009)

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