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| | Address | | 333 Clay Street, Suite 4800 | | Houston, Texas 77002 | | (Ft. Bend, Harris & Montgomery Cos.) | | | |
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| Eggleston & Briscoe practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts, Civil Business Litigation, Complex Insurance Litigation, Insurance Coverage Disputes, Real Estate Litigation, Oil and Gas Litigation, Construction Litigation, Employment Litigation, Commercial Real Estate Contracts, Employment Contracts, including Covenants Not to Compete and Confidentiality Agreements, Environmental Compliance, Wills and Probate. | Firm Profile:
The firm serves a predominantly corporate and institutional client base representing a variety of publicly and privately owned business interests. Specializing in commercial and insurance related litigation, the firm has a broad base of trial and appellate experience in the areas of contract disputes, business torts, construction and real estate litigation, products liability, personal injury, employment law, school and public law, aviation litigation, premises liability, professional liability, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, worker's compensation and subrogation claims. The mission of the firm is to provide legal services of the highest quality to all of its clients while responding promptly and efficiently to the particular needs of each client. The firm also practices in Harris, Austin, Brazoria, Ft. Bend, Montgomery, Galveston, San Jacinto, Waller, Walker, Chambers, Liberty, Wharton, Jefferson, Matagorda, Bexar and Travis counties. | | Firm Size: 12 | Representative Clients:
AIG Claim Services, Inc.; Allstate Insurance Co.; American Safety Insurance Co.; Amerisure Companies; Apex Insurance Managers, LLC; Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's; Fidelity National Insurance Co.; General Reinsurance Corporation; General Star Indemnity Company; General Star Management Co.; Lexington Insurance Company; National American Insurance Company; National Independent Truckers Insurance Co.; National Union Fire Insurance Company; North American Specialty Insurance Company; Ohio Casualty Group; The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc.; United States Sports Insurance Company, American International Recovery, Inc.; Celadon Trucking, Inc.; Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company; Harnix Corporation; Hunter Capital Group; Huntsman Petrochemical Corporation; Intercontinental United Investors; Lincoln Property Company; Maverick Directional; McLarens Young International; NAS Group; Optimal, Inc.; Quest Capital Resources, LLC, Trammell Crow; Trans-Global Petroleum, Inc.; United Rentals, Inc.; Vista Equities Group, Inc.; Argonaut Specialty; Conservation Capital, LLC; Texas FAIR Plan Association. | | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | William J. Eggleston (Member) born Houston, Texas, July 8, 1951; admitted to bar, 1977, Texas and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1978, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas; 1987, U.S. Supreme Court; 1991, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas; 1999, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Education: University of Texas; University of Houston (B.A., 1974); University of Texas; South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1977). Member: Order of Lytae; Order of Barristers. Member, South Texas Law Journal, 1975-1976. Leader, school's Moot Court Team, 1976. Listed in, Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, 1977. Assistant District Attorney, Harris County, 1977-1982. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Texas Association of Defense Counsel; Defense Research Institute; The Bar Association of the 5th Federal Circuit. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; Construction; Insurance Litigation; Construction Defect Litigation; Oil and Gas Litigation; Professional Liability Litigation; Premises Liability Litigation. Email: William J. Eggleston | | W. Montgomery Briscoe (Member) born Houston, Texas, January 14, 1959; admitted to bar, 1985, Texas; 1986, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: Washington & Lee University (B.A., 1981); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1984). Winner, Spurgeon Bell Moot Court Competition, South Texas College of Law, 1982. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Insurance Litigation; Personal Injury; Products Liability; Probate Litigation; Trust Litigation; Commercial Litigation. Email: W. Montgomery Briscoe | | Raymond L. Gregory II (Member) born Galveston, Texas, December 7, 1963; admitted to bar, 1990, Texas; 1991, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1994, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois (inactive) and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit (inactive). Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1986); University of Houston (J.D., 1990). Author, Commentary: " Rowinsky, Leija and Rosa H, "The Fifth Circuit Does the Texas Three-Step and Limits a Student's Right to Recover for Sexual Harassment," 121 Ed. Law Reporter 881 (1997). Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Education Law Association. Practice Areas: Insurance Coverage; Insurance Bad Faith; Contract Litigation; Business Torts; Employment Defense; Litigation; School Law; Public Law; Commercial Litigation. Email: Raymond L. Gregory II | | David W. Smith (Member) born Okmulgee, Oklahoma, August, 16, 1971; admitted to bar, 2000, Texas; 2001, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas. Education: University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1994); University of Houston (J.D., cum laude, 2000). Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Houston Young Lawyers Association; Texas Young Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Insurance Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Business Torts; Oil and Gas Litigation; Construction Litigation. Email: David W. Smith | | ASSOCIATES | | R. Wade Vandiver (Associate) born Amarillo, Texas, July 8, 1966; admitted to bar, 2002, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas. Education: Texas Tech University (B.A., in Political Science, 1989); South Texas College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2002). Province 22 President, Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity. The Order of Lytae. Member, South Texas Law Review. Recipient: Best Team, 2nd Best Oralist, Second Best Brief, Spurgeon E. Bell Memorial Moot Court Competition, Spring 2001; Best Team, Best Oralist, Best Brief, Texas Administrative and Public Law Moot Court Competition, Fall, 2001; Second Best Brief, National Security Law Moot Court Competition. Assistant Province President. Adjunct Professor of Advocacy, South Texas College of Law. Chairman, Waterside Estate Modifications Committee. Member: State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Commercial Litigation; Oil and Gas Litigation; Estate Planning. Email: R. Wade Vandiver | | Otto Jackie-Don Schacht (Associate) born Warrensburg, Missouri, May 13, 1974; admitted to bar, 2002, Texas; U.S. District Court, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas. Education: Texas A & M University (B.S., Psychology, 1996); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 2002). Phi Delta Phi. Recipient: Second Place Team and First Place Brief, State Bar of Texas Administrative and Public Law Moot Court Competition, 2000; Second Place Team, National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition, 2001; First Place Team, J. Braxton Craven, Jr. Memorial Moot Court Competition, 2002. Adjunct Professor of Advocacy, South Texas College of Law. Chairman, Board of Advocates, 2001-2002. Member: State Bar of Texas; Houston Bar Association; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; First and Third Party Insurance; Insurance Litigation; Subrogation; Commercial Litigation. Email: Otto Jackie-Don Schacht | | Keith Alan Laughery (Associate) born Buffalo, New York, November 2, 1964; admitted to bar, 2006, Texas; 2007, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: University of Houston (B.S., Psychology, 1992); South Texas College of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2005). The Order of the Lytae. Recipient, Phi Delta Phi Highest Grade Awards in Legal Research & Writing I, Legal Research & Writing II, Family Law and Damages Law. Member, South Texas Law Review. Author, Commentary: "Warnings in the Workplace: Expanding the Learned Intermediary Rule to Include Employers in the Context of the Product Manufacturer/Employer/Employee Relationship," 46 S. Tex. L Rev. 627, 2005. Member: State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Insurance Litigation. Email: Keith Alan Laughery | | John Michael Raborn (Associate) born Houston, Texas, September 1, 1981; admitted to bar, 2007, Texas; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. Education: University of Richmond (B.S.B.A., Economics, 2004); The University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 2007). Member: State Bar of Texas. | | OF COUNSEL | | Bradley I. Raffle (Of Counsel) born Rockford, Illinois, May 2, 1949; admitted to bar, 1976, Florida; 1977, Connecticut; 1984, Texas. Education: University of Florida (B.S., 1971; M.S., Environmental Engineering, 1972); University of Miami (J.D., 1976). Omicron Delta Kappa; Blue Key. Member: American Bar Association (Member, Natural Resources Law Section; Former Vice Chairman, Air Quality). Practice Areas: Trial Practice; Environmental Law; Commercial Litigation. Email: Bradley I. Raffle | | Tracy Jackson Cowart (Of Counsel) born Munich, Germany, July 31, 1968; admitted to bar, 1994, Texas, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas. Education: Texas A & M University (B.A., 1989); South Texas College of Law (J.D., 1993). Order of the Lytae. Member, Varsity Moot Court Team, 1992-1993. Member: State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Insurance Coverage; Insurance Bad Faith; Contract Litigation; Business Torts; Commercial Litigation. Email: Tracy Jackson Cowart | | F. Maxwell Evans (Of Counsel) born Pontiac, Michigan, July 12, 1944; admitted to bar, 1973, Texas; 1974, Ohio (inactive); U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas. Education: Harvard College (B.A., 1966); University of Houston (J.D., cum laude, 1972; LL.M., 1992). Member, Order of the Barons. Associate Editor, Houston Law Review, 1972. Author: 22 State Bar of Texas Environmental Law Journal 155; 9 Houston Law Review 560; 9 Houston Law Review 1090. Member: Houston Bar Association; State Bar of Texas. [LCDR, U.S. Coast Guard, active, 1966-1969, reserve, 1969-1975]. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Real Estate; Environmental Law; Business Transactions; Litigation Management; Commercial Litigation. Email: F. Maxwell Evans | | LEGAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL | | Cherokee Carlson born Mobile, Alabama, June 7, 1972; Education: University of South Alabama (B.A., 1994). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation. Email: Cherokee Carlson | | Debra Rossi born Victoria, Texas, May 15, 1960; Education: Victoria College (Paralegal Program, 2004). Email: Debra Rossi |
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