More About the Team
The Team at karlbayer.com:
Karl Bayer
Karl Bayer received his B.A. cum laude in electrical engineering from Rice University in 1971, an M.S. in biomedical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1976. He began his career as an engineer, consulting for the design of large-scale radar tracking systems, and was a founding partner of Omnibus, a company that developed software to automate school bus routing. Mr. Bayer then spent seven years in governmental relations positions, including staff attorney in Pesticides and Toxic Substances with the Environmental Protection Agency. He was legislative director for U.S. Representative Kent Hance, administrative and legislative aide for State Senator Don Adams and a law clerk for Texas Attorney General John Hill.
In the legal field, Mr. Bayer worked as a trial lawyer, specializing in plaintiff's personal injury and intellectual property. Mr. Bayer has been a guest lecturer at the University of Monterey Law School and Annahuac Law School in Mexico City in international negotiations and alternative dispute resolution. He is a Fellow at the Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution and a regular guest lecturer at the University of Texas Law School in alternative dispute resolution, trial tactics, negotiation and professional responsibility. Karl received the 1998 Community Peacemaker Award from the Travis County Dispute Resolution Center. His primary focus these days is on mediation and arbitration.
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Rob Hargrove
Rob Hargrove is a 2001 graduate of the University of Texas in Austin School of Law, and he is licensed to practice law in Texas. He has worked for Karl Bayer since September of 1997, taking a year off for his first year of law school. He graduated from Princeton University in 1997 with an A.B. in English, and he was born and raised in Shreveport, LA. Rob and his wife Robyn (who is also a lawyer) have two Golden Retrievers, Sandy and Hallie, and a brand new human child named Charlie (born just before halftime of the 2006 Texas-Texas Tech football game). In his free time, Rob likes to play softball, play bridge, cook and occasionally go fishing.
Alyson Chaky
Alyson Paul is the public face of karlbayer.com. She has not, as yet, written her short biographical sketch.
Frosty Gray
Frosty Gray was born in Lampasas Texas and graduated from Lampasas High School, where he claims to have majored in fishing. He then went on to the University of Texas, where he graduated with a degree in zoology (minor in fishing) in 1968. Immediately after college, Mr. Gray taught in the Galveston ISD, where he had the opportunity to discover the joys of salt water fishing until, in 1969, he won an expense-paid trip to Phu Bai, South Viet Nam, courtesy of the 101st Airborne Division.
After Vietnam, Frosty returned to Texas and served as director of State Water Quality Strategy for the Texas Water Quality Board from 1971-1979. Next, he astutely began a landscape design and installation business just before the real estate bust in Austin. In 1988, Frosty Gray began a new career as an investigator for the Austin law firm of Gibbons, Bratton & Winckler, which became Gibbons, Winckler & Bayer. Since 1991, Frosty has been an independent private investigator specializing in forensic investigation, and he has done extensive work for Karl Bayer for more than a decade. Frosty also still gets to go fishing from time to time.