Poly-America L.P. v.
Stego Industries LLC

Erica Harris wins trademark invalidity case for client threatened with trademark infringement. After a bench trial, the court found defendant's color trademark functional and thus invalid.

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Scarbrough v. METRO

Chanler Langham and Johnny Carter win federal trial court dismissal of Metroplexcore, LLC's claims against Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority ("METRO"). The federal court dismissed plaintiff's claims for lack of standing and failure to exhaust administrative remedies.

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Frankel Offshore Energy, Inc. v. Grimes Energy, Inc., Texas Standard Oil & Gas LP, and PetroVal Inc.

Geoffrey Harrison and Alex Kaplan win a $4 million judgment after a three week jury trial for Frankel Offshore Energy against Texas Standard Oil & Gas and others

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Johnston et al v.
The Rawlings Company, L.L.C.

Neal Manne, Shawn Rabin and Kalpana Srinivasan win a full defense verdict after a three-week jury trial on behalf of The Rawlings Company in wage and hour class action.

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Lincoln Life & Annuity Co. of New York v. Jonathan Berck, as Trustee of the Rosamond Janis Insurance Trust

Steven Sklaver wins complete reinstatement of $20 million worth of life insurance coverage for life settlement investor.

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Dillard’s Inc. v. i2 Technologies, Inc.

Terry Oxford and Ophelia Camina win $226 million fraud verdict and judgment for Dillard's against software vendor. The $239 million jury verdict was one of the Top Ten Jury Verdicts in the United States last year.

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Our trial lawyers focus on only one thing: high-stakes commercial litigation. We represent plaintiffs and defendants, which gives us an advantage of knowing how the other side thinks no matter whom we represent. Because we have confidence in our ability to win, we want to share risk and reward with our clients and so prefer to work on a contingency fee or alternative fee that rewards our success. Our experienced team of Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York based attorneys are: Matthew Behncke, Vineet Bhatia, Johnny W. Carter, Joe Conley, Amira M. El-Hakam, Charles Eskridge, Brian Gillett, H. Lee Godfrey, Joseph S. Grinstein, Erica W. Harris, Geoffrey L. Harrison, Richard W. Hess, Alexander Kaplan, Stuart V. Kusin, John P. Lahad, Chanler A. Langham, Neal S. Manne, Kenneth S. Marks, Eric J. Mayer, Ashley McMillian, Kenneth E. McNeil, Brian D. Melton, William R. Merrill, Weston O'Black, Karen Oshman, Thomas W. Paterson, J. Hoke Peacock, Nabeel Peracha, David Peterson, Shawn L. Raymond, Robert Rivera, Jr., Jonathan J. Ross, Robert S. Safi, Mary Kathryn Sammons, Sandeep Seth, James T. Southwick, Harry P. Susman, Stephen D. Susman, Katherine G. Treistman, Max L. Tribble, Manmeet S. Walia, Mark L. D. Wawro, Alexandra G. White, Suyash Agrawal, Seth Ard, Jacob W. Buchdahl, William C. Carmody, Kendyl Hanks, Tibor Nagy, Shawn J. Rabin, Nathan Rehn, Benjamin Sauter, Arun Subramanian, Rebecca Tinio, Barry C. Barnett, Jonathan E. Bridges, Warren T. Burns, Ophelia F. Camiña, Daniel H. Charest, Kenneth E. Gardner, Katherine Hacker, LeElle Krompass, Terrell W. Oxford, Joseph C. Portera, Stephen Shackelford, David Shank, Patrick Bageant, Matthew R. Berry, Rachel S. Black, Jordan Connors, Ian B. Crosby, Parker C. Folse, Lindsey N. Godfrey, Drew D. Hansen, Stephen E. Morrissey, Justin A. Nelson, Edgar G. Sargent, Daniel J. Shih, Floyd G. Short, Brooke A. M. Taylor, Genevieve Vose, Daniel J. Walker, Amanda Bonn, Amy Brantly, Bryan Caforio, Victoria L. Cook, Oleg Elkhunovich, Kathryn P. Hoek, Ryan C. Kirkpatrick, David H. Orozco, Marc M. Seltzer, Steven G. Sklaver,  and  Kalpana Srinivasan. They litigate the following types of commercial litigation disputes for plaintiffs and defendants: antitrust, including price fixing and monopolization; arbitration, including international and domestic; bankruptcy, including adversary proceedings; business disputes, including breach of contract, fraud, and tortuous interference actions; class action, mass action and aggregate litigation; products liability; securities fraud; employment, including executive compensation, employment discrimination, FLSA and wage and hour litigation; oil and gas and energy; climate change; intellectual property, including patent infringement, copyright, and trademark, trade secret misappropriation; shareholder litigation, including shareholder oppression, accounting negligence, private equity litigation and financial institution litigation.