Shareholders / Partners - Randall Rouse

RANDALL L. ROUSE - O&G LIT; LIT; MEDIATE; BNKRUPT; APP; EMPL; PER INJ; ENV

rrouse@lcalawfirm.com

Randall L. Rouse is a shareholder who joined Lynch, Chappell & Alsup in 2001. His practice experience of over 25 years includes oil and gas, labor and employment, commercial and business law, tort, insurance, malpractice and bankruptcy related matters. He has substantial jury and bench trial experience in State and Federal Court and as a result, Rouse has earned the rank of advocate with the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Rouse has served as a lead trial counsel in a wide variety of cases involving oil and gas, creditors rights and bankruptcy, insurance defense, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, hospital law and malpractice, personal injury and property damage, products liability defense, defense of municipalities and counties, real estate disputes, commercial arbitrations, employment defense, commercial and business litigation, and appellate matters in all courts. Rouse has represented both plaintiff and defendant. In addition, Rouse has argued numerous cases before State and Federal Appellate Courts many of which have become reported decisions in the State and Federal Courts.

He is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; the United States District Courts for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas and Southern District of West Virginia and all State Courts of Texas and West Virginia.

He is a member of the State Bar of Texas; State Bar of West Virginia; American Bar Association; Fifth Circuit Bar Association; American Board of Trial Advocates; a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America Trial Lawyer Honorary Society, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America and a Life Member of the National Registry of Who’s Who.

Rouse received both his undergraduate and his law degrees from Texas Tech University.

Rouse is a frequent lecturer at seminars and has given seminars on employment related matters, bankruptcy matters and trial advocacy matters. He has taught several business law related and bankruptcy related courses at area colleges and continuing education institutes.

In addition to his professional work, Rouse has been involved in the civic life of the communities of Odessa and Midland. He was on the Salvation Army Board and West Texas Literacy Council when he lived in Odessa and since moving to Midland has been chairman of the Board for the Life Center, a Christian nonprofit ministry.