Richard L. Crozier is a
shareholder of the firm and a member of the Firm’s Practice Management
Committee. He was educated at Baylor University School of Law (JD 1979)
and Southwestern University (BA; BS 1974) and was admitted to the Texas
bar in 1979.
In 1979, Mr. Crozier was
selected to act as a briefing attorney for the Third Court of Appeals in
Austin, Texas, the court of record for administrative appeals. After
leaving the Court, Mr. Crozier was a member, and head of the appellate
section, of the Austin firm of Hearne, Knolle, Lewallen, Livingston &
Holcomb from 1980 until 1987.
From 1987 - 1995, Mr.
Crozier was a shareholder and partner in charge of the Austin office of Page
& Addison, P.C., where he was a senior trial attorney and head of the firm’s
administrative practice.
Since 2001, Mr. Crozier has
been the shareholder in charge of the firm’s Austin office, where he handles
matters involving state and federal public utility regulation, litigation
and appeals.
Mr. Crozier is licensed by
the Supreme Court of Texas to practice law in all courts of the State of
Texas. He is also licensed to practice in the United States District Courts
for the Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern districts of Texas and the
Northern District of California; the United States Courts of Appeal for the
Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; the United States Tax Court; and the
Supreme Court of the United States.