Richard Clayton Clayton Trotter

Background

Trotter, Richard Clayton was born on June 2, 1950 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of John Clayton and Frances (Barrington) Trotter.

Education

Southwestern University. University of Texas at Austin (Bachelor of Business Administration, 1973. Juris Doctor, 1976); Oxford University.

Phi Beta Delta. Law Clerk to Judge John H. Wood, Junior, United States District Judge, Western District of Texas. Assistant Professor, School of Law, 1987-1989 and College of Business, 1983-1986, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Assistant Professor, Business Law, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, since 1989.

Spoken languages: Spanish.

Career

Worked at Branton & Hall, P.C. (San Antonio, Texas) specializing in Negligence, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Aviation and Business Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1976, Texas United States. District Court, Western, Northern and Southern Districts of Texas and United States.

Court of Appeals, Fifth and Seventh Circuits. 1982, Florida; United States. Supreme Court.

Phi Beta Delta.

Law Clerk to Judge John H. Wood, Junior, United States District Judge, Western District of Texas (1976-1978). Corporate Counsel, General Mills, Inc. (1980-1982). Assistant Professor, School of Law, 1987-1989 and College of Business, 1983-1985 and 1987-1988, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.

Associate Professor, Regent University School of Law, Virginia Beach, Virginia 1986. Assistant Professor, Business Administration, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 1989-1993. Associate Professor, Business Administration, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1994—.

Author: "Getting Your Attorney to Cooperate," Journal of Accountancy, July, 1984, p.114. "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Interpretation and Compliance," Prentice-Hall Corporation Services, 1985 (with Professors Johnson and Gately), reprinted as Booklet, 1985. "And Nothing But the Truth—Auditors as Expert Witnesses," Internal Auditor, 1986, pp.

12-14 (with Professor Coolins). "Does Your Small Business Need Financing? SBA Can Help," Units Magazine, National Apartment Association, (with Susan Day, Broker), November/December, 1988, p. 28-32; "Accountant's Professional Liability: Treble Damages Against CPAs?" Today's Certified Public Accountants Magazine, March 1989, p.

25; "Of Outhouses and the Freedom of the Press," The Police Journal, March 1989. "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Accountants' Two Edged Sword," The Attorney-Certified Public Accountants Journal (with Professor Paul Munter), 1989. "Bhopal, India and Union Carbide Corporation—The Second Tragedy," The Journal of Business Ethics (with Susan Day and Amy Love), Fall 1989.

"Ethical Problems in the Legal Profession: The View From the Inside Out," Journal of the Legal Profession, Spring 1990, November 1989 edition (with Professor Don Finn). "The Public Accounting Litigation Wars: Will Expert Systems Lead the Next Assault?," Jurimetrics (American Bar Association Journal of Science and Technology) November 1990, with Linda Specht, Ronald Young and Steve Sutton. Texas Professional Liability, Contributing Author with Authors James L. Branton, Jim D. Lovett and Susan Combs, Knowles Law Book Company, 1988.

Lone Star Law, A Texas Law Casebook, with William Burke III, Shadow Publishing, 1991. President, Southern Business Law Association, 1990-1991. President Elect, Program Chair, Southern Business Law Association, 1989-1990.

Vice President, Southern Business Law Association, 1988-1989. Editor, Southern Business Law Association Proceedings, 1988-1989. Secretary-Treasurer, Southern Regional Business Law Association, 1987-1988.

Member, American Bar Association, 1987-1988. Member: American Business Law Association. Southern Business Law Association.

Jim Branton and Jim Hall have practiced together in San Antonio for seventeen years. Their present firm, a professional corporation, is an outgrowth of two earlier firms in which they were both partners and in which Jim Branton was the senior partner. They have offices at the same location for the entire seventeen years.

The firm has always practiced exclusively civil litigation, predominantly personal injury litigation, and almost exclusively on the plaintiff's side of the docket. Their practice is statewide and includes extensive federal litigation in all four federal districts. In 1991, the firm was joined by, the late Justice Franklin S. Spears, following his retirement from the Texas Supreme Court.

(Deceased, 1996).

Achievements

• Bar: Texas 1976, United States District Court (western and northern districts) Texas 1978, Florida 1982, United States Court Appeals (5th circuit) 1978, United States Court Appeals (7th circuit) 1987, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1988.

Membership

Member Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Southern Business Law Association (secretary-treasurer 1988-1989, vice president, editor 1987-1990, president 1991-1992), College State Bar Texas, Honor Society International Scholars.

Interests

• Avocations: running, flying, basketball.

Connections

Married Susan Hendrick, December 28, 1972. Children: Fredrick, Frances, Susie, Byron, Ricky, Alma.

Father:

John Clayton Trotter

Mother:

Frances (Barrington) Trotter

Spouse:

Susan Hendrick

child:

Byron Trotter

child:

Frances Trotter

child:

Ricky Trotter

child:

Susie Trotter

child:

Fredrick Trotter

child:

Alma Trotter