Robert is a Senior Associate in the Houston office and is a member of the firm’s Trial Disputes, Product Liability & Mass Torts Practice Group. His practice focuses on litigating toxic and environmental torts and environmental contamination cases, including air, water, and groundwater and soil contamination issues. Robert’s practice also includes litigating and arbitrating employment and healthcare matters, including restrictive covenant, harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, FLSA collective action matters, and managed care litigation matters in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies and arbitration panels.

Prior to joining the firm, Robert worked as an associate large international law firms in Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana, focusing on labor and employment issues and class and collective actions. Prior to entering private practice, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Jackson, Mississippi, and while in law school, a judicial extern for the Honorable Albert Diaz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Charlotte, North Carolina and the Honorable Neil P. Olack for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi in Jackson, Mississippi.

Robert graduated summa cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law, where he served as an Executive Articles Editor of the Mississippi Law Journal.

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