3/29/23 - News
We are excited to announce that Lori C. Arakaki has joined Hicks Johnson as a lateral associate.
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Chase Hinman served as a project assistant from May 2021 to July 2022 after graduating from Rice University with a double major in Philosophy and Kinesiology. Now a 1L at Yale Law School, Chase reconnected with us to discuss his time at Hicks Johnson and his career goals.
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11/10/22 - News
Hicks Johnson was proud to serve as a sponsor for the Institute for Energy Law’s 21st Annual Energy Litigation Conference on November 9, 2022, in Houston.
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This fall, we’re excited to welcome three first-year associates to the team. In addition to profiling the new class, our fall 2022 newsletter contains announcements about our Chambers ranking, upcoming conference sponsorship, recent trial victory, and the spate of legal guidance we’ve published over the past several months.
View Story10/6/22 - News
Adam Greiner, a recent graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, rejoined Hicks Johnson as a first-year associate after completing the firm’s 2021 summer associate program. He sat down with us to explain why he decided to return, his interest in complex litigation, and the goals he’s set for himself.
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10/5/22 - News
We are pleased to announce that partners Adam Schiffer and Adam Dinnell have been recognized in Benchmark Litigation’s 2023 rankings as a Litigation Star and a Future Litigation Star, respectively.
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Gordon recently graduated from the University of Mississippi with a major in Political Science and Government. Previously, he served as a legal assistant at a litigation boutique in New Orleans.
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Sean recently graduated from Rice University with a major in Psychology and a minor in Politics, Law, and Social Thought. His legal experience includes a judicial internship with Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, an internship with the Houston firm Schwartz Immigration Law, and an executive board position with the Rice Pre-Law Society.
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6/17/22 - News
Hicks Johnson was engaged to represent a Houston woman who filed suit against SoulCycle after developing rhabdomyolysis – a life-threatening medical condition that occurs when damaged muscle tissue releases its proteins into the bloodstream – several days after her first SoulCycle spin class. The case went to trial, where partners Logan Johnson and Varant Yegparian drew on their extensive commercial litigation skills to craft a compelling narrative that unraveled SoulCycle’s defense. Ultimately, our client was awarded 100% of her claimed damages, a seven-figure amount, along with all recoverable fees and costs.
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6/1/22 - News
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business announced that Hicks Johnson (Hicks Johnson) has been ranked as a leading law firm in the Texas Litigation: General Commercial practice area for 2022. Less than 1 percent of U.S. law firms receive this important distinction.
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Robert Rankin and Daniel J. Scime have joined the firm as associates. Robert comes to Hicks Johnson from the New York office of Paul Weiss, where he focused on a broad range of civil litigation matters. He clerked for the Colorado Supreme Court and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. Dan, also a University of Chicago Law School graduate, previously practiced general litigation in Skadden’s Chicago office.
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Wafa is a rising 3L at Washington University School of Law, where she is active in the school’s Women of Color Law Society, International Law Society, and South Asian Law Society. Previously, she served as a judicial intern to Justice Veronica Rivas Molloy of the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas. She graduated from the University of Houston with a B.A. in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
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Ben is a rising 3L at the University of Houston Law Center, where he sits on the board of the Houston Law Review. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Psychology with honors. He returns to Hicks Johnson after completing the firm’s summer law internship program last summer.
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5/2/22 - News
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Intertek, a large, multinational consulting firm, attempted to breach its lease with Trical Commercial, an arm of the Los Angeles-based development company Bycor and Trical Construction, over allegations of toxic mold. Trical Commercial engaged Hicks Johnson to file suit for breach of contract and seek millions in damages.
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4/11/22 - News
Hicks Johnson partner Adam Dinnell spoke to the San Antonio Express-News about the firm’s representation of the Texas wine industry in its fight…
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2/24/22 - News
Texas Monthly highlighted our representation of the Texas wine industry and its plight to survive destructive herbicide exposures caused by Bayer & BASF’s…
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At Hicks Johnson, we’re ringing in the new year by ramping up our growth.
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1/11/22 - News
In June 2021, Hicks Johnson filed suit on behalf of 57 Texas High Plains vineyards seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from Bayer-Monsanto and BASF. While Bayer-Monsanto and BASF removed the lawsuit to a federal multidistrict litigation pending in Missouri, a U.S. district judge announced that the case would be sent back to the Texas state court where it was originally filed.
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A Hicks Johnson team led by partner Varant Yegparian was engaged to represent SynergenX, a nationwide provider of hormone-related therapies, in a dispute over proprietary medical technology appropriated by a competing startup.
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Hicks Johnson is pleased to announce the continued growth of its leadership team with the promotion of Persis Dean to partner. Matthew W. Davis and Brandon Winchester have been named senior counsel.
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Congratulations to partner Adam Dinnell, who has been elected to membership in the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation, an invitation only extended to less than 1% of lawyers in the state each year. Nomination is based on outstanding contributions to the legal profession as well as a demonstrated commitment to the community.
View Story10/14/21 - News
In Q2 and Q3 of 2021, we’ve been busy expanding our recruiting efforts and launching new firm initiatives. Our fall newsletter contains recent thought leadership content, hiring news, and updates on the slate of high-profile matters we’ve been handling over the past several months, including a $560 million suit on behalf of 57 Texas High Plains wine grape growers that made national headlines.
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Chase Hinman joined the firm in May as a project assistant. He recently graduated from Rice University with a double major in Philosophy and Kinesiology. Throughout college, he worked as an EMT and as special events coordinator for Rice’s Emergency Medical Services.
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9/28/21 - News
After a wheelchair user was injured while boarding a major airline’s aircraft in Houston, Texas, she was awarded almost $4 million in damages by a jury sitting in the Southern District of Texas. Penelope Nicholson and the Hicks Johnson team were retained by her trial counsel to lead the effort on appeal. Through our briefing and oral argument, we succeeded in persuading the Fifth Circuit to affirm the district court’s judgment in its entirety.
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