| Robert C. Prather, Sr. was born in Kansas City, Missouri, February 16, 1945, and grew up in El Paso, Texas. Robert's wife, Lana, was raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and earned her B.B.A. in Finance at the University of Texas Austin. She is a calligrapher under the name "The Prather Pen". They have two adult children. Undergraduate Education
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| Robert was selected a Rotary International Foundation Scholar in 1968, studying for one year at the University of Tasmania Law School, Hobart Tasmania, Australia. Robert was selected as one of four 1970 summer law clerks for the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Texas, Austin, December 1970. In 1971, he served as staff Attorney and Committee Clerk to State Senator William T. Moore and the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee, 61st Legislative Session. In June 1971, Robert became an Assistant to District Attorney Henry Wade in Dallas, Texas. After serving as a felony prosecutor, he was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, in July 1974. He directed a task force prosecuting major white collar crime cases, for which he received the United States Department of Justice Special Achievement Award. In 1980, Robert became the Economic Crime Enforcement Specialist of the United States Department of Justice for the Northern and Western Districts of Texas. His responsibilities included coordinating federal, state and local law enforcement agency efforts in combating economic crime. From 1981-1983, Robert was an associate of the firm of Turner, Rodgers, Sailers, Jordan & Calloway and in 1983, became a founding partner of Jordan, Dunlap, Prather & Harris, L.L.P. On January 1, 2007, he became a shareholder in Snell Wylie & Tibbals, PC. He has tried over 125 jury trials to verdict. Robert is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of Texas and the United States Supreme Court, Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals and Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas. He is a member of the American, Texas and Dallas Bar Associations, the College of the State Bar of Texas and has served on the Judiciary (Chairman 1993, Outstanding Committee Chair 1994), Courthouse and Federal Judiciary Complaint Committees of the Dallas Bar Association. He is a civil trial lawyer in the state and federal courts representing plaintiffs and defendants. His work includes commercial issues, business organizations, real estate, residential construction, employment relations, lender liability, telecommunications, probate, and consumer protection and related litigation. Most of the cases he handled as an Assistant United States Attorney involved the defrauding of some governmental agency, providing him with a working relationship with a number of the governmental agencies. Since 1988, Robert has served as a mediator with 200+ mediations. Since 1991, he has served as an arbitrator with 70+ arbitrations and is an American Arbitration Association panel member. He has 400+ hours of ADR training, is a member of numerous ADR organizations and the 2003 President of Association of Attorney-Mediators, North Texas Chapter. He is a Credentialed Advanced Mediator by the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association. He participates in Collaborative Law and is on the Advisory Board of the Texas Collaborative Law Council. He is also co-author of Texas ADR Practice Guide (West Group, 1995); an Adjunct Professor since 1993; and, a member of the American Arbitration Association Seminar Faculty. Community Activities
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