Ms. Lauren J. Harrison

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Jones Walker LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Won an 80 million lawsuit in a case brought by an offshore drilling contractor
  raising novel issues of interpretation for private drilling contracts in relation to federal regulatory action.
  Led precedent-setting all-female trial team comprising five women attorneys in trial of 160 million breach of contract case.
  Successfully defended major entertainment company in antitrust case challenging acquisition agreement for licensed material.
  Defeated theft of trade secrets
  breach of non-competition claims brought against oil field services company client
  certain of its employees.
  Forced a walkaway settlement in a case challenging client's methodology to audit third party invoices on behalf of utility contractors.
  Won an effectively dispositive venue fight in litigation over rights to live action film production.
  Earned significant settlements on behalf of two separate clients whose fracking materials were destroyed in a warehouse fire.
  Won a tortious interference case in East Texas on behalf of a developer of a petcoke gasification facility
  successfully defended the victory on appeal.
  Won summary judgment on behalf of an oil
  gas exploration
  development company in a federal qui tam (whistleblower) lawsuit relating to accounting of oil royalties. The relator waived his right to appeal in exchange for my client not seeking costs against him.
  Won an injunction in favor of a scrap metal dealer requiring its supplier to remediate radioactive contamination on my client's property.
  Won a permanent injunction with unrestricted geographic scope on behalf of an internet-based business against its former employee to prevent breach of non-competition
  confidentiality agreements
  successfully defended the judgment on appeal
  
  had the defendant's website taken down.
  Won injunctive relief on behalf of an educational company against its former employee to prevent breach of a non-competition agreement
  misappropriation of trade secrets.
  Won injunctive relief in trade name infringement matter on behalf of developer of properties for hydrocarbon fracturing in Eagle Ford Shale.
  Won a forum selection dispute in a fraud
  breach of contract case that went all the way to the Texas Supreme Court
  ultimately resulted in extremely favorable settlement for my client.
  Assisted in the successful defense against a Clean Air Act challenge by environmental groups, winning on 98 issues after a two week trial on the merits before an administrative judge. The judgment was upheld in its entirety on appeal.
  Won dismissal of a Texas litigation against a Canadian logistics company based on lack of personal jurisdiction.
  Won dismissal of a New Jersey lawsuit against my Texas-based client based on improper venue.
  Won dismissal of multiple trade name
  trade dress disputes in Dallas
  Seattle against the owner of a chain of medical spas.
  Counseled a developer of offshore wind power generation facility on its successful defense against a Commerce Clause challenge to regulations supporting the project.
  Successfully enforced railroad easement rights on behalf of my client.
  Obtained a highly favorable settlement on behalf of plaintiff in antitrust, fraud
  breach of contract lawsuit against one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers.
  Have designed
  overseen multiple Sarbanes-Oxley internal investigations, FCPA internal investigations,
  intellectual property audits.