Lead Associate To Managing Partner
Buzbee Law Firm
Houston, Texas Area
• Reported directly to managing attorney and worked on docket of cases with jurisdictional amounts ranging from 650,000 to $500,000,000,000.• Worked on personal injury lawsuits stemming from trucking accidents, crane accidents, flash fires, failure to maintain vehicles, and malfunctioning machinery.• Worked on products liability suits involving malfunctioning sporting equipment and pharmaceutical drugs.• Worked on environmental suits stemming from oil refinery and/or manufacturing plant operations involving Chevron, Grain Processing Corporation and British Petroleum.• Prepared complaints and petitions for personal injury, Jones Act, products liability, and environmental cases.• Drafted Response to Motion to Summary Judgment leading to significant recovery in products liability case.• Drafted one or more of the following: Response to Motion to Dismiss, Response to Request for Lone Pine Case Management Order, Response to Motion for Summary Judgment, Motion for Summary Judgment, Motion to Strike, Response to Motion to Compel Vocational Rehabilitation, Response to Motions for More Definitive Statement, Response to Foreign Non Conveniens Motion to Dismiss, Motion to Compel Discovery, Response to Motion to Compel Discovery, and Motion in Limine.• Took and defended depositions of fact and expert witnesses in products liability and personal injury actions.• Prepared lead attorney for hearings in products liability and personal injury cases, providing points of argument, analysis, and case summaries.• Walked through temporary restraining orders.• Prepared managing attorney for depositions in $500,000,000,000 environmental/toxic tort suit.• Propounded discovery based on legal research in products liability, personal injury and toxic tort cases.• Researched and prepared memoranda regarding complex legal issues in personal injury, products liability, and toxic tort causes of action.