Our Firm's Toxic Tort practice consists of several decades of collective experience in successfully defending various employers, product manufacturers, contractors and premises owners in lawsuits alleging personal injury, wrongful death or property damage because of exposure to various alleged toxins. This experience includes:

• Successfully trying cases to verdict in all areas of Texas.

• Assisting newly sued defendants such as home builders, communications companies and other "new-wave" defendants in investigating claims and facts, developing defenses and both case-specific and overall cost-effective litigation strategies to achieve expedient extrication from the litigation.

• Regional counsel overseeing the defense and administration of thousands of claims, including developing and maintaining litigation and settlement budgets, negotiation of large-scale, innovative case resolution agreements, and supervising numerous local and trial counsel on specific cases.

• Developing methods for resolving litigation problems using innovative non-litigation techniques, including developing favorable case management protocol adopted by courts, streamlining discovery efforts by developing joint discovery plans for using common experts, and other cost-effective discovery tactics.

• Effectively shaping the litigation process through our judicial and legislative contacts and relationships, including involvement in tort reform legislative committees and other measures.

• Successfully using the appellate system reversing or mitigating negative results.

Our Toxic Tort and Products Liability Attorneys:

W. Edward Carlton
Michael D. Clark
Keith B. Cummiskey
Harold H. Hunter
Peter A. Moir
Matt R. Pickelman