Robert John Myers

Practice Areas

• Civil Trial and Appellate Practice
• Property Taxation
• Legal Malpractice

Education

• St. Mary’s University of San Antonio, J.D., 1983
• Texas Tech University, B.A., 1980

Admitted

• 1983, Texas
• 1987, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
• 1994, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
• 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• 1994, U.S. Supreme Court
• 2006, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
• 2013, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas

Memberships

• Tarrant County and San Antonio Bar Associations
• State Bar of Texas (Member, Sections on: Litigation and Taxation (Property Tax)
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit.

Born

• Dallas, Texas, September 8, 1957

Biography

• Phi Delta Phi
• The Order of Barristers.
• Recipient: Lewis F. Powell Award.
• Author: “Myers, Ad ValoremTax Litigation and Recent Changes to the Property Tax Code” 19 SMLJ 2, 279, 1987.

Reported Cases

• Valero Transmission Co. v. Hays County Appraisal District, 704 S.W.2d 857 (Tex. App.—Austin 1985, writ ref’d n.r.e.)
• Valero Transmission Co. v. San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District, 770 S.W.2d 648 (Tex. App.—Austin 1989, writ denied)
• O’Neill v. Church’s Fried Chicken, Inc., 910 F.2d 263 (5th Cir. 1990)
• Harris County Appraisal Review Board v. General Electric Corp., 819 S.W.2d 915 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1991, writ denied)
• In re Estate of Hillje, 830 S.W.2d 689 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 1992, no writ)
• Wentworth v. Meyer, 839 S.W.2d 766 (Tex. 1992 [orig. proc.])
• Bexar Appraisal District v. First Baptist Church of San Antonio, 800 S.W.2d 892 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 1990) rev’d, 833 S.W.2d 108 (Tex. 1992), upon remand, 846 S.W.2d 554 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 1993), cert. denied, 510 U.S. 1178 (1994)
• Pearcy v. Pearcy, 884 S.W. 2d 512 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 1994, no writ); Gregg County Appraisal District v. Laidlaw Waste Systems, Inc., 907 S.W.2d 12 (Tex. App.—Tyler 1995, writ denied)
• Texas ex rel. Angelini v. Hardberger, 932 S.W.2d 489 (Tex. 1996)
• DeWoody v. Rippley, 951 SW 2d 935 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 1997, pet. dism’d by agr.)
• Valero South Texas Processing Co. v. Starr County Appraisal District, 954 S.W.2d 863 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 1997, pet. denied)
• Leon Springs Gas Co. v. Restaurant Equipment Leasing Co., 961 S.W.2d 574 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 1997, no writ)
• Commercial National Bank of Beeville v. Batchelor, 980 S.W. 2d 750 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi 1998, no pet.)
• First Aircraft Leasing, Ltd. v. Bexar Appraisal District, 48 S.W.3d 218 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2001, pet. denied)
• Mastin v. Mastin, 70 S.W.3d 148 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2001, no pet.)
• Fairchild Aircraft, Inc. v. Bexar Appraisal District, 47 S.W.3d 577 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2001), remanded to No. 97CI-10508, 2002 WL 34156252 (150th Dist. Ct., Bexar County, Tex. Jan. 30, 2002)
• McGee v. Smith, 107 S.W.3d 725 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2003, pet denied)
• Cloud v. McKinney, 228 S.W.3d 326 (Tex. App.—Austin 2007, no pet); Brimer v. Maxwell, 265 S.W.3d 926 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2008, no pet. h.);Watson v. Tipton, 274 S.W.3d 791 (Tex. App.— Fort Worth 2008, pet. denied).

Unreported Cases

• In re Progressive Concepts, Inc., No. 2-04-343-CV, 2004 WL 2624194 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Nov. 15, 2004, pet. denied) (mem. op., not designated for publication)
• Rattner v. Contos, No. 04-08-00244-CV, 2009 WL 1405225 (Tex. App.—San Antonio May 20, 2009, no pet.).

Other

• A-V rated by Martindale-Hubbell (“The pinnacle of professional excellence earned through a strenuous Peer Review Rating process that is managed and monitored by the world’s most trusted legal source”)
• Bar Register of Pre-eminent Lawyers (2003-2009); Frequent contributor to the “Annual Legal Seminar on Property Taxation” Sponsored by Texas A&M University (now in its 25th year). Frequent author and lecturer at professional continuing education courses on the subjects of Property Taxation
• Legal Ethics and Civil Trial Evidence and Procedure; named by peers to listing of “Tarrant County’s Top Attorneys” in the fields of Civil Trial Law and Property Taxation, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (Fort Worth, Texas Magazine)