Practitioner Litigation

R. E. LOPEZ, JR.

Attorneys At Law/ Mediator

P O Box 781612 San Antonio, Texas 78278

Cell: 956-***-**** Email:***@**********.***

***** *******, ***. 210-*-***-*** 9834

San Antonio, Texas 782**-***-*** 9840 (fax)

Education

Baylor University

1959-1962, B. A. 1962

1962-1964, Baylor Law School

LLM, 2017: Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland

(Transnational Commercial Practice, studies on NAFTA, Trade Agreements, and E. U.)

Admitted to Practice 54 years:

Admitted to Practice:

Texas Supreme Court, Dec. 12, 1965.

United States Federal District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1969

United States Federal District Court, Western District of Texas, 2014

United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 1975

United States Supreme Court, 2003

Professional Associations

Texas Bar Association, 1965

American Bar Association, 1969

San Antonio Bar Association

State Bar College, 1970 – present

Certified Mediator and Arbitrator, 2005

Guardianship Certification 2019

Texas State Board of Legal Specialization

Real Estate Law, Residential, 1984-1994

Farm and Ranch, 1984-1994

1965-1989 General Practice in Alice, Texas;

1977 Established a Savings Bank and was the Chairman of the Board, General Counsel. Sold in 1985

1990-1997 Partner at Hirsch Glover in Houston Law firm with 74 lawyers.

1997-2012, Senior Partner, Lopez Peterson, PLLC, Laredo, Texas (sold practice 2012)

2012 to present, practice of law as sole practitioner.

Moved to San Antonio and continued my practice as a general practitioner, Insurance Defense Litigator; Real Estate, Probate, General Litigation and office practice. I slowed down my practice while contemplating retirement.

I am a Hearing Examiner, for the Texas Education Agency where I am assigned cases on appeals from school districts and personnel on terminations and contracts. After hearing the evidence I rule on the merits of the appeal and make a Recommendation.

Over the years of practice, I have concentrated on litigation, real estate and document preparation.

I have tried numerous cases over the years, and I have always been first chair. While at the law firm of Hirsch, Glover, Robinson and Sheiness, I was the managing partner for the South Texas operations which included approximately 15 lawyers that worked under my supervision and trained them to become trial lawyers. I represented Tenneco and Fina in some oil and gas litigation which included claims of non-production, and right of ways. I also defended a pipeline company on an explosion in Zapata County. While at Hirsch Glover, I, along with Jay Hirsch, would visit out carriers to drum up business and organize cle’s for the adjusters at their company offices. I was also a title examiner during my early years in Alice, Texas. I prepared all home loan documents, and was never criticized by the examiners on any of the documents. The preparation of the loan documents was in conjunction with my position as general counsel for a savings bank, which I sold years later.

While at Lopez Peterson, I had approximately 7 associates that were under my supervision and direction for trial and motions. I have attended deposition of experts, eyewitnesses, corporate management, truckers, physicians, doctors and product manufacturers. I have sat in trial training young lawyers on how to handle the depositions and the smooth flow of questioning in a logical and legal approach to the specific case. The cases have ranged from auto accidents to construction defects, product liability, professional liability and transportation accidents. Since 2012 when I moved to San Antonio, I was an outside counsel for Allstate to 2018. My last trial was in Eagle Pass, Maverick County, in 2017 where I obtained a defense verdict. I continue to have a library of experts and trial personnel for trial. Recently, I tried a Will contest in Jim Wells County, where I represented the Executrix and settled when jury was to begin deliberations. It was a 3 week trial.

VISIITING PROFESSOR OF LAW, Odessa Academy of Law in Odessa, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, and CZECH REPUBLIC for Center for International Legal Studies- Spring 2010, 2011, 2012. Author of book: LECTURES ON LITIGATION, An Introductory Survey of the American System, (Forty Acres Press, University Co-Op, 2011) It is translated into Russian.

I do not like retirement and miss working with a firm. I hope my age and 54 years of practice will assist your firm to serve the clients in this honorable profession.

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