Results our lawyers have obtained for clients:

• In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fith Circuit, obtained the reversal of the trial court’s dismissal of landowners’ claims that the City of Austin illegally annexed their land, allowing the landowners’ claims against the City to go forward

• Obtained summary judgment for landowners, with the court invalidating the City of Taylor’s alleged development agreement that would have prevented land development

• Represented dozens of landowners in helping shut down a multi-billion-dollar pipeline project on the East Coast and another multi-billion-dollar pipeline project in Oregon

• In an important groundwater-rights case, authored the landowners’ successful trial briefing and the merits brief on appeal, which prompted the State to settle for $5.5 million (just $300,000 less than the jury verdict) just days before oral argument

• Obtained a settlement of over $1.9 million for a landowner on an initial written offer of under $70,000 in a pipeline taking (more than 27 times the initial offer)

• Represented landowners as lead appellate counsel, defending judgment of over $2 million for the landowners in a pipeline taking, leading to a confidential settlement following briefing and oral argument

• Successfully represented 50 sets of landowners in Taylor, Texas area to challenge municipality’s abuse of regulatory power, culminating in passage of new state law providing relief

• Obtained appellate reversal of trial court’s ruling, allowing former corporate officer and director proceed with breach-of-contract claim for improper denial of D&O coverage, leading to confidential settlement

• Successfully represented plaintiff in a multi-million-dollar real-estate contract dispute to enforce specific performance of contract

• Successfully defended a real-estate developer in a securities-fraud case in federal court to a jury, which issued a take-nothing defense verdict

• Represented 14 sets of clients in obtaining dismissal of a FERC-permit pipeline taking in North Carolina and reimbursement of legal and expert fees

• In a pipeline taking, obtained a settlement of over $2.2 million for a landowner on an initial written offer of under $690,000

• Secured withdraw of requests for a preliminary injunction to take possession of property in a series of pipeline condemnation cases

• Briefed and argued an admiralty appeal to the Second Circuit, which reversed a liability determination and rendered a take-nothing judgment on claims exceeding $100 million

• Obtained $450,000 for landowner against TxDOT contractor who took dirt from landowner’s property without permission for a highway-construction project

• Authored the winning appellate brief in a will challenge involving a multi-million-dollar estate

• After obtaining dismissal of claims against governmental defendant in the trial court, coauthored the winning merits brief and successfully defended the dismissal on appeal

• Since 2018, obtained an average of 6.48 times more (with clients netting 5.39 times more) than pipeline companies offered to Texas landowners in pipeline-easement cases

• Authored a detailed complaint against a Fortune Global 10 company, alleging trade-secret misappropriation and other claims, prompting the defendant to agree to a high-eight-figure settlement

• As co-counsel, helped Texas manufacturing facility obtain a settlement of $6.5 million in dispute where TxDOT initially offered only $1,500 in a highway-takings case

• Successfully defended a jury verdict on appeal for a buyer asserting a negligent-misrepresentation claim related to a ranch sale

• Successfully represented homeowners in nuisance dispute with neighboring car dealership and nationally known car dealer, leading to a confidential settlement of damages and physical changes to dealership

• Routinely advise and represent one of Texas's largest residential developers in negotiations with and litigation against local-government entities

• Successfully defended against a former trustee’s attempt to challenge the appointment of new trustees

• Obtained $850,000 settlement for landowner in breach-of-easement case against electric utility

• Obtained reversal and rendering of judgment in favor of clients in federal appeal, vindicating their property interests in a right-of-way

• Filed an amicus brief on behalf of the then-president-elect of Mexico, the governor of the State of Mexico, and the State of Mexico itself, supporting the cert petition of an undocumented Mexican woman who was deprived funds to hire a competent expert witness in a criminal case that turned on expert medical opinion

• Coauthored the winning merits brief and sat second chair in a statutory-construction case at the U.S. Supreme Court, which held 9-0 for the client

• Successfully defended employer against preliminary-injunction request, causing plaintiff to dismiss case and two other similar matters

• Obtained $250,000 ($174,285 net to client) in a TxDOT highway taking where the lessee business client was originally offered $0

• Obtained dismissal of all claims against major Indian media company in a contract and copyright dispute—and successfully argued the case on appeal

• As co-counsel, represented Virgin Galactic in removing the case from state court to federal court and then obtaining a complete dismissal of the lawsuit, which compelled the plaintiff back to arbitration to face trade-secrets claims against it

• In a condemnation case brought by Port Freeport, successfully defended the landowners’ right to continue their court challenge to the port’s taking of their property in both the trial court and court of appeals

• Together with co-counsel, defended a nephrologist and his medical clinic against claims of Medicare fraud, with the jury and judge awarding a take-nothing verdict judgment in favor of our clients, which Chris then successfully defended in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit