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Hicks Johnson is pleased to welcome our first class of project assistants, Angie Vertti and Sina Shahnizadeh, to the firm.

We’ve been hard at work amplifying our recruiting efforts and expanding our capabilities to meet our clients’ evolving needs. Our fall newsletter offers…

Partners Marc Tabolsky and Penny Nicholson won an appeal on behalf of Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London in a case the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit described as “byzantine,” with more than $50 million in controversy.

A pro bono team comprised of Hicks Johnson partner Adam Dinnell as well as longstanding members Samy Khalil (Gerger Khalil Hennessy & McFarlane), Chad Flores (Beck Redden), Jay Ewart (Arnold & Porter), and Karen Otto (Arnold & Porter) recently obtained a rare victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

In 2018, Bernice Heiderman, a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer serving in Comoros, an island off the east coast of Africa, died of undiagnosed malaria, raising serious concerns about the quality of the Peace Corps’ medical care. Now, Hicks Johnson partner Adam Dinnell is helping Bernice’s parents file a lawsuit against the agency.

Hicks Johnson is representing the litigation trustee in the sprawling, two-year bankruptcy case against Lubbock, Texas-based Reagor Dykes Auto Group. As special litigation counsel to the debtors, and now as counsel to the litigation trustee, Hicks Johnson partners Marc Tabolsky  and  Andy Hicks have filed multiple claims seeking more than $60 million on behalf of the Reagor Dykes bankruptcy estate and creditors’ trust.

Hicks Johnson is pleased to welcome summer associate Dave Finkel to our team. Dave is a rising 3L at the University of Chicago…

Hicks Johnson is pleased to welcome summer associate Fatima Aslam to our team. Fatima recently graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center with an LL.M. in International Business and Economic Law and a Certificate in International Arbitration.

We are pleased to announce that Fatima and David will be joining our team this summer.

No one could describe the first quarter of 2020 as “business as usual.” Our spring newsletter offers timely insight into pressing COVID-19 issues, from genetic typing in tort litigation to cyberattacks, involuntary quarantines, and emerging trends in force majeure.

Hicks Johnson PLLC is proud to announce that three of its lawyers have been selected as “Texas Rising Stars” by Texas Monthly magazine….

A settlement between the bankruptcy estate of Reagor Dykes Auto Group and Vista Bank was approved in federal bankruptcy court on February 26,…

As court-appointed special litigation counsel in the Reagor-Dykes bankruptcy case, Hicks Johnson lawyers Marc Tabolsky and Andy Hicks are tasked with untangling a…

Adam Dinnell will be speaking at the Federal Bar Association Rising Professionals Symposium (March 20-21, 2020) on the use of genomic evidence in…

Update: Summary judgment was upheld by the First Court of Appeals in Houston, while the Texas State Supreme Court declined to review. The…

After an Illinois coal mine experienced a mine fire due to the spontaneous combustion of coal, the mine operator withheld years’ worth of…

Houston, TX, January 7, 2020—Bees360, a tech startup that leverages artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and drone technology to provide residential property damage adjusting…

In a decision that bodes ill for Matra Petroleum, a Houston court has restrained the company and its financial partners from engaging in…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit delivered a sweeping victory for Hicks Johnson client Southwestern Energy, affirming its defeat of…

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) expressly provide for the discovery of electronic documents and other “electronically stored information” or ESI. Despite…

Hicks Johnson secured a take-nothing judgment in favor of its client, SWN Production Company, LLC (a subsidiary of Southwestern Energy Company) after a…

After a two-week trial in which partner Logan Johnson led the Hicks Johnson team representing Devon Energy Production Company, a Houston jury delivered…

The firm represents one of three people who have accused Manuel La Rosa-Lopez, a former priest, of sexual abuse. La Rosa-Lopez, who has…