Trial & Appellate Litigation
DGC’s trial and appellate lawyers prosecute and defend high-stakes and complex disputes from pre-litigation to the Texas Supreme Court.
The lawyers in the trial group represent clients in a variety of complex matters that include:
- Oil & Gas Litigation
- Operator/Non-Operator Disputes
- Ownership Disputes
- Royalty Disputes
- Surface Use Disputes
- Environmental Torts
- Condemnation Proceedings
- Serious Personal Injury Defense
- Products Liability Defense
- Premises Liability Defense
- Employer/Employee Litigation
- Administrative Litigation
- Fiduciary Litigation
- Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secret Litigation
Our Texas appellate lawyers have decades of experience handling a wide variety of appeals, including:
- Oil and gas appeals, such as disputes over lease construction, title/ownership, surface use, royalties, adverse possession, and operating agreements
- Tort appeals, including personal injury, product liability, fraud, and toxic/environmental tort appeals
- Appeals governed by contract or statutory construction
- Governmental, constitutional, qualified immunity, sovereign immunity, tax, and agency/administrative appeals, and
- Arbitration appeals
In addition to handling appellate briefing and arguments before the Texas Supreme Court, Texas courts of appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, our appeals lawyers:
- Collaborate with trial counsel
- Help develop trial and litigation strategies
- Aid in error preservation, and
- Draft and argue pretrial, trial, and post-trial motions, objections, and
- challenges including motions for summary judgment, expert challenges,
- jury charges, and motions attacking judgments