RESULTS
Defense verdict in favor of an energy hedge fund accused of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and gross negligence based on that $454 million fund’s implosion amid market volatility (New York Supreme Court)
Defense verdict for Microsoft Corporation on claims that its enterprise software caused the failure of an $85 million online sports-retail business (United States District Court for the Western District of Texas – San Antonio, Texas)
Defense verdict on behalf of Fortune 500 navigation-device manufacturer Garmin accused of patent infringement (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas – Marshall, Texas)
Defense verdict in a bet-the-company class-action suit alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act for the nation’s largest provider of emergency medicine and ambulance services (United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas – Corpus Christi, Texas)
Defense verdict of noninfringement for the country’s leading consumer-products company, Rank Group Limited/Reynolds, in a lawsuit alleging willful patent infringement (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas – Marshall, Texas)
Obtaining a multimillion-dollar award of attorneys’ fees for the prevailing plaintiff in a commercial case (Harris County, Texas)
Defense verdict of noninfringement for a global medical-device company (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas – Tyler, Texas)
Award of $537 million and assets valued in excess of $1 billion in favor of a client on alter ego claims in a dispute involving a global family-owned energy company (Harris County, Texas)
Obtained a complete defense judgment following trial for energy-trading hedge fund MotherRock on claims of misrepresentation, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, gross negligence and negligence following that $454 million fund’s implosion during a period of extreme market volatility; also acted as first chair on appeal, in which the defense verdict was unanimously upheld (New York Supreme Court; New York First Appellate Department)
Obtained a defense verdict in a patent infringement suit on behalf of a global navigation company (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas – Marshall, Texas)
Obtained a defense verdict in a patent infringement suit on behalf of the nation’s largest consumer-products company (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas – Marshall, Texas)
Obtained a defense verdict in a patent infringement suit on behalf of a global medical-device company (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas – Tyler, Texas)
Obtained a judgment of $537 million and assets valued in excess of $1 billion for a client in a dispute over family ownership of a multinational energy company (Texas State Court – Harris County, Texas)
Obtained a defense verdict for a national health-services company in a class-action Fair Labor Standards Act suit (United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas – Corpus Christi, Texas)
Obtained a defense verdict and prevailed on a counterclaim for a national health-services company (United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida – Orlando, Florida)
Obtained a complete defense verdict on behalf of a Fortune 500 medical-device company and one of its sales representatives, following a four-week trial (Texas State Court – Harris County, Texas)
Representation of a Fortune 10 software company in multibillion-dollar claims involving alleged violations of the Lanham Act and unfair trade practices
Representation of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in litigation against the state of Texas regarding an interpretation of the 1998 Texas Tobacco Settlement Agreement
Representation of recording artists, food and beverage companies, online retailers and health-care companies in trademark litigation
Representation of an oilfield-services pipe and alloy company in multiple commercial disputes, including bet-the-company trade-secret litigation and commercial cases
Representation of an Italian company in litigation involving trademark infringement, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and civil theft
Represented a Hong Kong-based electronics manufacturer in warranty ion
Represented Kansas City Southern Railway in appellate matters involving sovereign immunity
Represented clients from pretrial to posttrial, including interlocutory appeals, jury-charge development and argument, mandamus proceedings in all courts of appeal, bill-of-review proceedings and traditional appeals in Texas intermediate courts of appeal, the Supreme Court of Texas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Fifth Circuit