Robert Pullis:  

Life Following three years at Ruston High School, I attended La Tech for two years from 1981-1983. I transferred to NLU and in December of 1983 during our junior year, I married Bridgette Crotwell who was a nursing major at NLU (RHS class of 1981). I completed my BA in Sociology in 1985. I expected to become a 2LT in the Marines and to go to flight school, but due to a bad heat stroke during my last week of OCS, I did not become an officer after all. I stayed at NLU and completed an M.Ed in Guidance Counseling and then went to work as a claims adjuster for Commercial Union Insurance in Ruston, LA. Missing the airport (I was a Private pilot and loved flying), I attended La Tech and received a BS in Professional Aviation in Feb 1991. I worked as a flight instructor in Fort Worth, TX for a little over a year. In 1992 I flew as an air-ambulance pilot in a Beechcraft C-90 King Air for CareFlite in Dallas, TX. I left and became a co-pilot for Comair Airlines based in Cincinnati, OH, and flew a 30-passenger twin turboprop aircraft for a year and was laid off in 1994. I knew I had to get a marketable education and I couldn't spell "biology" so medical school was out. I could spell "law" two out of three times so that's what I did. I finished law school in 1997; passed the Texas Bar Exam in May of 1998; and in August of 1998 I began graduate law studies in Estate Planning Taxation at the Univ of Miami. I graduated with my LL.M. degree in 1999 and began practicing law in Conroe, TX doing estate planning, trusts/estates, offshore asset-protection trusts, probate and general business litigation. I left my law partnership to work as a Estates Settlement Trust Officer for Merrill Lynch Trust Co. for a while. I taught Business Law at Sam Houston State University for a year as an adjunct faculty member and still "fill i...Expand for more