Robert Stokes is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Civil Appellate Law and Workers’ Compensation Law. He has a B.A. from Abilene Christian University and a J.D. from Baylor University. Mr. Stokes is past chair of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and a former member of the Texas State Bar Committee on Jury Service, as well as the State Bar Committee on Pattern Jury Charges, General Negligence and Intentional Torts and Workers’ Compensation. He was lead appellate counsel in Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation v. Lumbermen’s Mutual Cas. Co., where the court disallowed an effort to increase impairment ratings through the use of agency “advisories”, and lead appellate counsel before the Texas Supreme Court in Ins. Co. of the State of Pa., v. Muro, which clarified the standard for an award of Lifetime Income Benefits.