Experienced, Efficient, Effective Roberts Marke Weinberg Buter Haiey PC is committed to providing an enhanced eve of service to our cients seeking counse in professiona iabiity, directors and officers itigation, fiduciary itigation, commercia itigation, abor and empoyment, energy arbitration, appeas, community association aw, and corporate and rea estate transactions.
About Us [OVER THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE] Roberts Marke Weinberg Buter Haiey PC is an AV Preeminent aw firm designated by Martindae-Hubbe. Our firm aso enjoys the distinction of having many of our awyers designated as AV Preeminent rated attorneys by Martindae-Hubbe which is a testament that a awyers peers rank him or her at the highest eve of professiona exceence. We are committed to providing an enhanced eve of service to our cients seeking counse in professiona iabiity, directors and officers itigation, fiduciary itigation, commercia itigation, abor and empoyment, energy arbitration, appeas, community association aw, and corporate and rea estate transactions. Our firm has deveoped ong-term, high quaity reationships by focusing on the fact that a cient s reputation and fisca we-being are aways at stake in the matters entrusted to our firm. Our attorneys partner with our cients in arriving at soutions with transactions and at the courthouse. PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY The Professiona Liabiity team is headed by Gregg S. Weinberg, Dawn Hoiday and Rick Anderson. Gregg is Board Certified in Civi Tria Law and Persona Injury Tria Law by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization. Together these professionas have over 50 years of experience. RMWBH is experienced in a aspects of professiona iabiity which incudes: Confict avoidance through mediation and arbitration Representation in actua or threatened itigation Representation in professiona icensing and discipinary proceedings We take the responsibiities of defending caims against professionas seriousy and understand that the protection of our cients' reputations is a crucia consideration. Our goa is to obtain the most favorabe concusion, as quicky and efficienty as possibe, so that our cients can refocus attention on their current cients. Our experience working with both private firms and a major professiona iabiity insurance underwriters enabes us to faciitate the defense and achieve the prompt yet fair resoution of even the most compex cases. D&O LITIGATION Our D & O Team is headed by Jeffrey D. Roberts, Marc D. Marke and Amy VanHoose. Jeff is Board Certified in Civi Tria Law and Persona Injury Tria Law by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization and Marc is Board Certified in Residentia and Commercia Rea Estate Law by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization. Together these professionas have over 80 years of experience. RMWBH is experienced in representing directors and officers of for-profit and non-profit corporations throughout the State of Texas. Directors and officers ( D&O ) insurance poicies provide coverage for caims brought against the directors and officers of corporations. - Our firm provides representation for compex ega caims which are covered by D&O insurance poicies as we as cases which require direct hire representation. - We have over 30 years of experience representing corporate entities, their Board of Directors, officers and other representatives who are invoved in D&O caims. FIDUCIARY LITIGATION The Fiduciary Litigation team is headed by Jeffrey Roberts and Gregg Weinberg who are both Board Certified in Civi Tria Law and Persona Injury Tria Law by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization. Jeff and Gregg have aso been recognized by their peers as worthy of membership in the American Board of Tria Advocates (ABOTA). Together these professionas have over 60 years of experience. In addition RMWBH has a team of itigation professionas. This combination of experience enabes us to devise creative itigation strategies designed to hep our cients achieve their objectives. We have been recognized for our high ethica standards and have wide-ranging experience with issues such as guardianship, trusts, fiduciary confict of interests, preservation of disputed assets, prudent investor issues, empoyee benefit pans, tortious interference with expectancy and probate itigation. COMMERCIAL LITIGATION Our Commercia Litigation team is headed by Jeffrey Roberts and Gregg Weinberg. Jeff and Gregg are both Board Certified in Civi Tria Law and Persona Injury Tria Law by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization. Together Houston Austin San Antonio Daas Sugar Land
these professionas have over 60 years of tria experience. RMWBH's commercia itigation practice provides representation to our cients in a wide range of commercia disputes over the creation and enforceabiity of compex commercia matters. We are trusted advisors to our cients in matters ranging from pre-itigation strategies and the reative benefits of settement or mediation to the decision of when and how to try a case. We treat every case as one that wi go to tria. From the initia meeting forward, our attorneys identify ega, factua, and commercia issues and then deveop a comprehensive strategy that resonates effectivey from discovery through tria/resoution. We offer the combination of ega insight, courtroom experience, industry knowedge, and practica business sense needed to hep our cients prevai in the cases that are most critica to their businesses. LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Our Labor and Empoyment team operates under the eadership of Laura Aaniz and Cayton R. Hearn. Laura and Cayton are both Board Certified in Labor and Empoyment Law by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization. Together these professionas have over 37 years of experience. RMWBH provides practica advice to empoyers in a aspects of the empoyment reationship. Our counseing incudes: Hiring practices Compensation practices Workpace vioence Discipinary practices Discrimination and harassment Privacy concerns Famiy and Medica Leave Act Empoyee oyaty issues Non-compete issues Our abor and empoyment attorneys work with our cients to estabish poicies, procedures and training as a part of a comprehensive risk prevention program. We make eary assessments of potentia iabiity, work cosey with management to weigh the principes at stake in each case against the cost of defense, and carefuy consider the feasibiity of aternative dispute resoution. Whether you are an emerging or estabished business we partner with you to achieve a competitive edge in the fu range of abor and empoyment aw issues that affect your "bottom ine." COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LAW Our Community Association Law team operates under the experienced eadership of Marc D. Marke, Rick S. Buter, Roy D. Haiey, Brady E. Ortego, Ciff Davis and Eric B. Tonsu. Marc, Rick and Roy are Board Certified in Residentia and Commercia Rea Estate by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization and Ciff is Board Certified in Residentia Rea Estate by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization. Together these eaders of the industry have over 150 years of combined experience in Community Association Law. The firm presenty represents over 1,000 community associations, incuding property owners associations, condominium associations, commercia associations and some of the argest master panned communities in the state. The firm s depth of experienced ega professionas practicing in the unique area of Community Association Law is what separates our firm from the competition. A dedicated team of awyers and support staff are avaiabe to assist community associations with a their ega needs. The team aso represents reated practice areas incuding: Rea estate acquisition, deveopment and sae Lending transactions Contract negotiation and drafting Deveoper representation Empoyment aw Our mutifaceted practice keeps us informed of the most recent deveopments in Community Association Law practices and case aw, provides specific training for our staff and provides our cients with the service they expect. REAL ESTATE AND CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS RMWBH deivers ega soutions for property investment, deveopment and management, rea estate finance, as we as entity formation. We seek to provide cients with integrated ega services for a phases of a project and most stages of business. Our cient base comprises a broad range of corporations, deveopers, enders, investment managers, opportunity funds, Rea Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and private owners. Houston Austin San Antonio Daas Sugar Land
ENERGY ARBITRATION Our Energy Arbitration team is headed by Gregg Weinberg. Gregg is Board Certified in Civi Tria Law and Persona Injury Tria Law by the Texas Board of Lega Speciaization and has over 30 years of ega experience. Most energy reated contracts from vendors to equipment manufacturers have provisions that require the arbitration of disputes. Everyone in the industry knows that these contract provisions are often referred to as industry boier pate and most companies never bother to attempt to negotiate the terms athough these terms are negotiabe.. Most contracts have arbitration provisions that ca for arbitration to be conducted under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and many of those provisions aso ca for the arbitration to be conducted in Texas. Lawyers at RMWBH have been in the trenches for companies with energy arbitration contracts. We have arbitrated or negotiated with many arge corporations incuding Haiburton, Schumberger and Weatherford. Our attorneys can assist with drafting and negotiating Master Service Agreement (MSA) and Master Purchase Agreements (MPA) so that your corporation is protected. APPELLATE Our Appeate team is headed by Dawn Hoiday. Dawn and her appeate team have a winning record in state and federa appeate courts. Our appeate section provides quaity appeate representation for prosecuting and defending state and federa appeate matters in a variety of practice areas. As appeate attorneys, we strive to thoroughy understand the facts and ega issues of the underying itigation first to maximize chances for success on appea ater. Because appeate issues and impications arise at the tria court eve, to prevent waiver of appeate issues we often advise tria attorneys on matters reated to dispositive motion practice and trias to preserve appeate error. Our appeate attorneys are experienced at handing every phase of the appeate process to achieve the cient's utimate appeate goa. Our appeate services incude: Appea of decisions from state and federa district courts to the appropriate courts of appeas and courts of ast resort Mandamus proceedings Interocutory appeas Houry, contingency, or mixed-fee arrangement Whether the cient seeks affirmation of the tria court's decision, reversa or remand, or a combination of a three, we can successfuy hande it a. Houston Office: 2800 Post Oak Bvd, 57th Foor Houston, Texas 77056 Austin Office: 111 Congress Ave, Suite 1620 Austin, Texas 78701 Daas Office: Mockingbird Station 5307 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 450 Daas, Texas 75206 Sugar Land Office: Sugar Land Town Square 2277 Paza Drive, Suite 290 Sugar Land, Texas 77479 San Antonio Office: 750 E. Muberry Ave, Suite 404 San Antonio, Texas 78212 To Free: 800-713-4625 www.rmwbhaw.com Houston Austin San Antonio Daas Sugar Land
Roberts Marke Weinberg Buter Haiey PC operates under the experienced eadership of the foowing equity partners of the firm with over 145 years of combined experience: Rick Anders o n R i c k Bu t e r L a u ra A aniz G regg Weinberg M a rc Mar ke J e ffre y R ober t s R o s s As h e r Rick Barker Sipr a Boyd F r a n k Ca r r o M im i Buter Cinton Br own S hawna Darympe C i ff D avi s C h a s e Ev a n s Aaron Dobbs M ia Lo ri c k A d a m R o b er t s o n C a r Fa v r e, Of Cou n s e Dawn Hoida y R a h i a S u t an a i Houston Du s ti n F e s s e r Lisa Gam br e Him esh Gandhi Gr e g Go d k i n J u s t i n Ma r k e E ri c To n su Austin K a rre n Ma xwe Meissa McLain Amy Va n H o o se Cayt on Hearn San Antonio Br ady Or tego Stephanie Quade M a r k Ra b e James Richards Texas Board of Lega Speciaization in Commercia and Residentia Rea Estate Law Texas Board of Lega Speciaization Residentia Rea Estate Law Texas Board of Lega Speciaization Commercia Rea Estate Law Texas Board of Lega Speciaization in Civi Tria Law Texas Board of Lega Speciaization Labor and Empoyment Law Texas Board of Lega Speciaization Estate Panning and Probate Daas Sugar Land