Focusing on Civil Litigation and Other Civil Matters
Having extensive experience in a broad range of civil litigation and other civil matters the firm has successfully represented clients (are currently representing clients) in the following types of matters:
Please click to expand for more information
We have represented people and the heirs of people who suffered moderate injuries, severe injuries (including quadriplegia and severe burns), or death in a wide variety of cases. Some of our cases have involved:
- Automobile accidents (single-car and multiple cars)
- Truck accidents (truck-automobile collisions) - Article
- Home explosion caused by leaking gas
- Bicycle accidents (automobile-bicycle collisions)
- Toxic exposures (such as asbestos, formaldehyde, meth lab fumes/chemicals, and H2S gas)
- Oil field and industrial accidents
- Defective products (such as vaccines, medications, power saws, automobile seats, seatbelts, and airbags)
- Dram-shop cases (cases against bar owners for auto accidents caused by the bar's intoxicated customer)
- Slip-and-fall accidents
- Trip-and-fall accidents
- Pedestrian/runner accidents
- Shooting accidents
- Nursing home neglect of a resident
Actions against hospitals, medical doctors, oral surgeons, dentists, accountants, and lawyers. - Article
- Oil field damages (lawsuits involving land damaged by oil field operations)
- Erosion of land caused by negligence of pipeline companies
- Defective products causing property damage
Bad-faith failure to pay insurance proceeds, such as:
- Life insurance claim, contested because of the insurer's claim that the insured committed suicide
- Credit-life insurance claim, contested because of the insurer's claim that the insured could do other work
- Fire insurance claim, contested because of the insurer's claim that the insured intentionally burned the insured premises
- Uninsured motorist insurance
- Business property insurance, contested because of the ambiguous policy language
- Health insurance, where insurer paid only what it deemed reasonable and customary
- Breach of warranty
- Breach of contract
- Construction contracts and mechanics' and materialmen's lien foreclosures
- Disputes between co-owners of businesses
- Disputes between employers and past/present employees
- Libel and Slander
- Malicious Prosecution and Abuse of Process
- Wrongful Execution
- Suits Against Trustee for Embezzlement and Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- Quiet-Title Suits
- Partition Actions
- Foreclosures
- Fraudulent Transfer Actions (to execute upon property transferred to defraud creditors)
- Title Examinations
- Deeds, Contracts, Options, Mortgages, Easements, and All Other Instruments Affecting Real Property
- Real Estate Closings
- Probates and Administration of Estates
- Estate Tax Returns
- Contests of Wills (contesting a will signed by one who was incompetent or under the influence of fraud or duress)
- Simple and Complex Trusts
- Revocable/Irrevocable Trusts
- Trusts for Estate Planning
- Trusts to Avoid Probate/Estate Administration
- Trusts to Minimize Estate Tax
- Marital Deduction Trusts/Wills
- QTIP Wills/Trusts
- Estate Tax Planning
- Gift Planning
- Family Business Planning
- Probate Avoidance
- Elder Law Issues
- Durable Powers of Attorney
- Health Care Directives
- Irrevocable Insurance Trusts
- Charitable Remainder Trusts
- Use of Wills, Trusts, Family Partnership Agreements, and All Other Appropriate Media to Accomplish Estate Planning Goals
- Contests of Trusts (contesting a trust signed by one who was incompetent or under the influence of fraud or duress)
- Mineral Deeds/Conveyances
- Oil and Gas Leases
- Assignments of Oil and Gas Leases
- Oil and Gas Liens
- Oil and Gas Mortgages
- Surface Damage Act Compliance
- General Representation of Cities and Towns
- Condemnation (Eminent Domain) Actions
- Suits to collect accounts receivable, unsecured notes, and secured notes
- Replevins (prejudgment repossessions)
- Asset hearings (examinations of debtor or others under oath to find assets to satisfy a judgment)
- Skip-tracing and asset searches
Representation of creditors in all kinds of bankruptcy proceedings, including but not limited to confirmation hearings, valuation hearings, and adversary proceedings (contesting the granting of a discharge or the dischargeability of a particular debt).