Robert B. Rice, J.D.

Rob is an attorney with significant experience in regulatory compliance, corporate governance, transactional, contract and real estate matters.  His practice has included many years of experience handling both contested and uncontested administrative law cases before state and federal agencies in Texas and other states.  His background includes extensive in-house experience with two telecommunications companies and a natural gas company where he advised and counseled management in corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, business and commercial law, creditors' rights and commercial collections; regulatory management and compliance, employment law issues, and real estate and commercial transactions.  Rob also has strong skills in drafting sales, service, supply, construction, and technology contracts, Master Service Agreements, employment agreements, leases, Intellectual Property licensing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, company policies and procedures.

• Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire
  Juris Doctor, graduated in the Top 10% of the class
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  B.A., Major in Government

Experience

• Windstream Communications, Austin, TX : Director, Regulatory Counsel, July 2006-October 2008
• Valor Telecommunications, Austin, TX : Deputy General Counsel and Regulatory Directory, July 2000-July 2006
• Public Agency Representation Section, Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Austin, Texas, December 1998-May 2000 
• Public Utility Commission of Texas, Austin, Texas : Assistant General Counsel, November 1995-November 1998 
• Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, Texas : Legal Supervisor and Assistant Director, December 1993-November 1995
• Law Office of Robert B. Rice, Austin, TX : Attorney, July 1992-December 1993
• Law Office of Robert A. Webb, Austin, Texas : Attorney, September 1990-July 1992
• Southern Union Company, Austin, Texas : Assistant Vice President and General Attorney, September 1981-August 1990
• Vermont Legal Aid, Rutland, Vermont : Staff Attorney, August 1980-August 1981

• State Bar of Texas - Administrative & Public Law, Corporate Counsel, Public Utility Law and Military Law Sections
• Austin Bar Association - Administrative Law Section
  American Corporate Counsel Association
• U.S. Army Reserve, Colonel,  retired February 2007 - final assignment as Chief, International & Operational Law, U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort McPherson, Atlanta, GA.

Bar Admissions

• Texas 1982
• Vermont 1981 (inactive)
• Massachusetts 1977 (inactive)
• Federal District Courts