Mike Rogers
Professor of Law
B.B.A., Texas Tech UniversityJ.D., University of Oklahoma
At age 29, Mike Rogers was a founding partner of Gaar & Bell (now Gilmore & Bell), a prominent securities transactions firm with offices in Kansas City, Missouri, Wichita, Kansas, and St. Louis, Missouri. Gaar & Bell was quickly recognized by The American Lawyer as one of the outstanding new specialty firms in the United States. Professor Rogers served as lead counsel in dozens of private securities transactions and over one hundred public offerings of tax-advantaged securities. While teaching Securities Regulation at Baylor, he has served as consulting counsel in numerous securities lawsuits.
Professor Rogers joined the faculty in 1984 and became the architect of Baylor's alternative dispute resolution program. He has taught more law school offerings of the course "Alternative Dispute Resolution" than anyone else in the United States. He is an accomplished arbitrator and mediator who has successfully resolved scores of lawsuits. He serves as a director (Chairman of the Board, 2000-2001) of the McLennan County Dispute Resolution Center and on the panel of mediators for the United States District Court, Western District of Texas. He formerly served on the panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association.
For more than a decade, Professor Rogers has served as chair of Baylor's Professional Sports Counseling Panel. In this capacity, he has rendered advice to numerous future professional athletes, including Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson and Super Bowl Champion Santana Dotson. Mike Rogers is also Baylor's Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA and Big 12 Conference.
He was admitted to membership in Phi Eta Sigma, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi at Texas Tech University (B.B.A. 1972). He earned his J.D. at the University of Oklahoma in 1974 where he was an editor of the Oklahoma Law Review and was admitted to membership in the Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
