The attorneys of Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC have extensive business and commercial litigation experience spanning diverse business, transportation, energy and industrial sectors of the economy. Hailing from nationally recognized large and boutique law firms, the attorneys of Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC have the education, background and training that is necessary to excel in the world of complex commercial litigation. Our attorneys have represented clients in significant business litigation matters in state and federal courts across the country, achieving significant victories through verdict and negotiated resolutions.
Commercial Contracts
Our attorneys have substantial experience handling highstakes contract disputes in diverse commercial arenas, including shipping and transportation contracts, energy matters, architectural, engineering and construction services, product design services, information technology services, corporate merger and successor issues, and real-estate transactions. Often times, these matters can be resolved through summary judgment or a rapid ADR process; thus, we focus first on the clients’ objectives and win-points so that we can develop a cost-effective strategy. Moreover, when necessary to achieving our clients’ goals, our team develops a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the key issues and industry practices in which our clients operate through diligent, yet efficient, attention to detail and global business strategy. Through this process, we are able to efficiently identify the critical business and legal issues in play and successfully advocate for our clients’ business interests in a cost-effective manner.
Energy-Related Litigation
Principally located in Houston, Texas, the energy capital of the world, Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC has significant experience representing clients in the oil and gas industry. Our attorneys’ clients have included major oil companies, independents and individual interest owners, as well as huge pipeline and supply interests. Our energy litigation practice involves various oil and gas contracts, royalty disputes, landuse disputes, and pipeline easements. We have the capacity and experience to manage and resolve class action and other complex litigation. Additionally, our handling and understanding of complex environmental matters provides us with unique strategies relevant to many types of oil and gas disputes.
Real Estate Litigation and Eminent Domain
Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC counsel have represented numerous clients in real-estate related litigation, involving purchase contracts, leases, and various related agreements. In addition to buyers and sellers of real-estate, we have represented sales agents and brokers, pursuing and defending claims for breach of contract, common law and statutory fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of fiduciary duty. Our attorneys have also represented landlords and tenants in lease disputes. Our attorneys also have significant experience in condemnation and eminent domain proceedings. For instance, our attorneys have represented condemning authorities, ranging from railroads and pipelines to the Harris County Houston Sports Authority and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, in eminent domain proceedings. Our attorneys have likewise represented landowners whose property was sought by governmental entities, where right-to-take issues and valuation methods were contested. Our attorneys are well versed in market valuation methodologies and appraisal processes, allowing us to develop realistic damage models and properly advise our clients on recoverable damages.
Business Torts
Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC has represented domestic and foreign clients in pursuit and defense of a variety of business tort matters. Our attorneys have significant experience handling claims involving civil-RICO, fraud, misrepresentation, tortious interference with existing and prospective business relationships, conspiracy, officer and director liability, and breach of fiduciary duties. Additionally, our attorneys have years of litigation experience tracing assets and corporate successors through exceedingly complex international transactions, litigating related theories of de facto merger, alter ego and constructive trusts, and addressing claims for extraordinary remedies designed to ensure that sufficient assets exist to satisfy billion dollar liabilities. As part of this practice, we have also routinely litigated personal and subject matter jurisdictional challenges raised by foreign defendants seeking to avoid such claims.
Property Damage & Business Interruption Matters
Given our significant environmental practice and our related real-estate and eminent domain experience, Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC is uniquely situated to represent clients in litigation involving real-property damages, diminution in market value, and business interruption claims. Frequently, in addition to remediation costs, real-property and business interests are damaged by contamination from neighboring facilities or catastrophic releases. Thus, through claims such as nuisance, trespass, strict liability and statutory equivalents, we regularly litigate and manage experts involved in valuing such business and property damage claims. Our attorneys have a thorough and particularized appreciation of the intricate scientific and expert issues that characterize such complicated and sensitive matters, including the admission and exclusion of expert testimony from toxicologists, risk assessors, chemists, geologists, engineers, forensic environmental scientists, property appraisers, economists and the like. Our lawyers have also litigated coverage disputes related to environmental contamination and weather-related damages.
Employment-Related Litigation
Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs, PC attorneys have represented employers and employees in a variety of employmentrelated disputes, such as breach of employment contracts and non-compete agreements. Similarly, we have significant experience in litigating ERISA matters on behalf of plan fiduciaries and participants, including claims for the breach of ERISA fiduciary duties.