Established Propriety of Structured Settlement Transactions

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OUTCOME: The Court upheld the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars in annuity payments through a series of transactions and assigned the subject payments to the firm’s client.

Successfully established the propriety of a series of four structured settlement transactions and defeated claims of incapacity and violations of anti-assignment language in the underlying transaction ... documents.

Defense of Claim under Non-Competition Agreement

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OUTCOME: Successfully obtained jury verdict of no liability against the firm’s client in the face of a $7,000,000 claim for the alleged breach of a non-competition agreement.

Recovery on Promissory Notes

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OUTCOME: Successfully obtained a unanimous jury verdict and judgment for $280,000 arising from Defendant’s breach of contract.

Defense of Health Club in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

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OUTCOME: Successfully obtained jury verdict and judgment in favor of our client in the face of wrongful death and survival claims.

Family claimed that the club did not take appropriate action to save his life.

Defense of Non-Subscriber Claims

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OUTCOME: Successfully obtained a directed verdict in favor of our client on claims of negligence by an employee.

Employee claimed that he was entitled to damages from his employer resulting from fall. The employer was a non-subscriber under Texas law and hence, had waived certain defenses.

Jury Verdict against Title Insurer

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OUTCOME: Obtained a jury verdict for more than $500,000 in favor of purchaser.

Pursued claims against title insurer arising from the improper recording of real estate documents.

Award for Fraudulent Transfer

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OUTCOME: Successfully obtained a unanimous jury verdict in favor of client for $2,100,000, including $707,000 in punitive damages.

Pursued claims against husband arising from husband’s fraud transfer of funds and property during marriage.

Multi-Company Sale to Foreign Entity

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OUTCOME: Negotiated and closed transaction of specialty chemicals operation sale to a foreign entity

Complex sale of of specialty chemicals operation sale to a foreign entity. The transaction included the sale of three companies, an asset sale of two entities, a share sale of an international corpora ... tion, and real estate holdings.

Sale to Global Information Company

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OUTCOME: Successfully closed negotiated and closed transaction.

Represented geological mapping company in sale of its assets to global information company.

Residential Closing Services

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OUTCOME: Through our title and closing offices, we have closed more than One Billion dollars in real estate transactions.

We operate Title Insurance and Closing offices in Houston and Dallas.