Robert Alton Shults

Robert A. Shults

Attorney/Mediator

12335 Kingsride Ln., Suite 338

Houston, Texas 77024

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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. Later served for many years as a Section Chair at the firm of Sheinfeld, Maley & Kay and later as a partner at the firm of McFall, Breitbeil & Shults and at the Houston office of Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck Rankin & Hubbard until retirement from the active representation of clients. I now serve as a mediator, and a special master as well as a guardian ad litem.

Have tried well 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 – Currently 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