Our litigation attorneys have experience in a broad range of cases and legal issues and are well prepared to handle complex civil litigation matters. We understand that when you need legal assistance you want the issues resolved favorably and efficiently to minimize its negative impact on your business and life.
Based upon a team-oriented client-focused litigation approach, we have built strong valued relationships with our clients over the years. Our clients include public and privately-held companies in a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, securities, law firms, insurance, finance, communications, health care, technology, and construction. Our clients also include business professionals, entrepreneurs, franchisees, employers, employees and other individuals throughout Texas, the country and abroad.
The firm is keenly aware that experience, results and cost-conscious approaches to litigation are important. Our attorneys are also skilled negotiators who sometimes best serve our clients by resolving disputes quickly and effectively through negotiated settlements in mediation or other alternative dispute resolution forums.
Commercial/Business
We have experience handling a wide range of commercial litigation and arbitration, including disputes relating to breaches of contract, fraud, tortious interference, breach of fiduciary duties, construction disputes, insurance, real estate disputes, health care, antitrust, securities, patent, trademark, copyright and other business torts. We also have experience in disputes involving defense of class actions, lender liability claims, usury and other claims under the Texas Finance Code, Attorney General Civil Investigative Demands, claims under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, claims under the Texas Occupations Code, claims by dealers against financiers, defense of suits against equipment lessors, and defense of consumer and regulatory actions.
Energy/Oil and Gas/Natural Resources
We represent a range of clients in all segments of the energy industry, including major oil and gas companies, independent oil and gas companies, utilities, and landowners. Our oil and gas experience has encompassed matters from the “wellbore to the burnertip.” We have handled a wide range of matters, from individual landowner actions to nationwide class actions. These matters have included disputes involving mineral title ownership, operating agreements, implied covenants in oil and gas leases, bad faith pooling, lease forfeiture, natural gas contract and royalty underpayment disputes arising from natural gas and crude oil pricing practices. In other natural resources matters, we represent clients with disputes involving water and various state and federal environmental regulations.
Personal Injury, Pharmaceutical, Wrongful Death, Toxic Tort Litigation
We have handled catastrophic personal injury cases, wrongful death cases and multi-jurisdictional pharmaceutical litigation on behalf of injured individuals as well as defendants. Drawing upon decades of experience, we also have represented defendants in lawsuits involving environmental claims, mining, manufacturing and solid waste disposal.
Real and Intellectual Property Rights
Combining litigation skills with in-depth, substantive law knowledge, we represent clients in intellectual property disputes involving patent infringement, trademark and copyright violations. We represent individuals and corporate landowners involving large and small property right cases ranging from simple negotiations, to complex and contested condemnations, eminent domain and inverse condemnation.
School and Employment Litigation
Our attorneys have experience handling the complex issues school districts face including civil rights litigation. We represent employers and employees in all stages of employment litigation beginning with investigation of claims through to responding to or filing charges with the applicable federal or state agency and continuing to litigation when necessary.
Probate and Estate
We represent executors, administrations, trustees, guardians, agents, and beneficiaries with respect to fiduciary law issues, and handle contested and uncontested trust and estate matters, including will contests, will construction suits, property characterization disputes, trust and estate accounting controversies, and breach of fiduciary duty litigation. We have assisted our clients in securing appointment of guardians of the person and/or estate for minors and incapacitated adults, and proposed wards in guardianship litigation.
Health Care Litigation
We represent healthcare clients in state and federal litigation and in alternative dispute resolution. This work includes responding to Civil Investigative Demands and governmental inquiries and resulting litigation, antitrust actions, class action litigation, commercial and government claims payment disputes, breach of contract disputes, tort claims, and injunctive relief from state agency rule-making.
Professional Liability
Our lawyers have been engaged by local, regional, and national firms and their lawyers, hospitals and other professional services to defend them in professional liability matters, disciplinary actions and fee disputes. Such matters have included claims alleging malpractice and negligence, aiding and abetting, conflicts of interest, conspiracy, RICO, fraud, violations of the DTPA, and breaches of fiduciary duties in several substantive areas, including: bankruptcy, civil litigation, copyrights, corporate transactions, employment law, estate planning, financial services, health law, intellectual property, patents and trademarks, personal injury, real estate and securities law.
