Hicks Thomas LLP

Firm Details:
Web: http://www.hicks-thomas.com
Tel: (713) 547-9100
Fax: (713) 547-9150
Managing Partner: John Thomas
Number of partners: 12
Number of lawyers: 27

Firm Overview:
Based in Houston, Texas, Hicks Thomas LLP is a premier business and tort litigation boutique representing both plaintiffs and defendants. For more than 20 years, the firm has assisted its clients in matters related to energy, environmental and toxic torts, product liability, antitrust and anti-competitive practices, and employment and labor disputes.

The firm’s philosophy is based on not just winning, but winning smart. Hicks Thomas accomplishes this by thoroughly analyzing a client’s issues, including the risks faced across a variety of different scenarios, then developing a strategy that will deliver the best possible results. In doing so, the firm is not only meeting the immediate challenge, but also anticipating future issues that could arise and positioning the client to achieve the company or individual’s long-term goals. Hicks Thomas has consistently delivered successful results and gained a reputation for excellence, efficiency, and outstanding client service. With a team of over 25 attorneys and offices in Houston, Austin, Amarillo, Beaumont, and Sacramento, California, the firm has the depth of talent and flexibility to meet challenges of all types and sizes.

Main Areas of Practice: 

Appellate:
At Hicks Thomas LLP, their appellate lawyers are highly skilled at identifying and evaluating the key issues in a case and persuading appellate courts to rule in their favor. The firm regularly advise clients on trial and appellate strategy in sophisticated and high-stakes litigation, and the firm regularly brief and argue cases in state and federal courts of appeals. Whether working together with their own trial lawyers or in collaboration with other firms and attorneys, the firm advocates have a proven track record of success on appeal.
Partners: Stephen Barrick, Eric Grant, Robin Harrison, Gregg Laswell

Business Litigation:
Hicks Thomas help companies navigate a complex legal system in business litigation matters including corporate crises, mergers, acquisitions, and joint sales, partnerships and shareholder disputes, trademark enforcements, and many others. The firm carefully considers the challenges to business within the legal system and understands the corporate environment and the economic impacts of litigation. The firm assesses how these elements influence specific companies and specialized fields of work, and how they affect an industry. That knowledge then forms the basis of the firm’s strategy moving forward.
Partners:John Thomas, Stephen Barrick, Courtney Ervin, Robin Harrison, Stewart Hoffer, Stephen Loftin, Allen Rustay, Paul Mitchell

Construction Litigation:
Hicks Thomas pursues legal solutions that protect its clients’ interests and investments, whether through negotiation, litigation, or arbitration. The firm’s construction practice serves clients involved in all phases of private and public construction projects, including owners, design professionals, general contractors, subcontractors, developers, suppliers and vendors, as well as construction consulting and management firms.
Partners: John Thomas, John Deis, Courtney Ervin, Jay Old, Paul Mitchell, Robin Harrison

Environmental and Natural Resource Litigation:
Hicks Thomas serves client litigation needs in environmental mattersacross the natural resources, chemical, and industrial sectors. The firm provides guidance on federal laws from CERCLA and RCRA to state common-law doctrines of nuisance and trespass. The firm has served in trial and appellate matters as national litigation counsel for distributors and manufacturers of both chemical and industrial products, together with oil and gas producers. The firm has defended more than 4,500 claims of personal injury and property damage in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, and Texas. Among its clients in this area are individuals, businesses, municipalities, and public and private water purveyors.
Partners: John Thomas, Stephen Loftin, John Deis, Eric Grant

Labor & Employment Litigation:
Hicks Thomas litigates in federal and state courts across the country and prosecutes and defends administrative proceedings before federal and state agencies alike. The firm’s employment attorneys have experience with trade secrets, termination issues, disability accommodations, employment agreements, and more. The firm understands that labor and employment matters have the potential to hobble a business, sometimes irreparably. Its labor and employment practice seeks to resolve matters quickly and efficiently so that operations, as well as those they serve and support, are affected as little as possible.
Partners: John Thomas, Stewart Hoffer, Stephen Loftin

Energy Litigation:
Hicks Thomas has extensive experience in state and federal courts and before domestic and international arbitration tribunals representing clients in the energy and oil and gas sectors in all types of contested disputes, including commercial torts, property damage claims, pipeline, drilling, and oil rig litigation, contract agreement litigation, product defects, and force majeure claims in a variety of forums. Hicks Thomas has represented product suppliers, drilling contractors, vessel owners, service companies, operators and pipeline companies.
Partners: John Thomas, John Deis, Courtney Ervin, Paul Mitchell, Allen Rustay, Robin Harrison

Real Estate Litigation:
The trial lawyers at Hicks Thomas are experienced in all aspects of real estate litigation and have the deep knowledge and expertise that is required to handle each client’s legal needs. The firm represents clients from pre-litigation evaluation and strategy through appeal on developer disputes, business torts, contractual disputes, title disputes, liens and foreclosures. The firm represent developers, sellers, purchasers, property managers, and tenants of commercial real estate at the local and national level in all aspects of the commercial real estate industry.
Partners: John Thomas, Stephen Loftin

Trade Secret Litigation:
Hicks Thomas represents clients in trade secret disputes in state and federal courts, including under confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, the common law of trade secrets, the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, and the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
The firm is experienced in obtaining emergency injunctive relief in a very short timeframe to avoid irreparable harm to clients whose trade secrets have been compromised.
Partners: John Thomas, Stewart Hoffer, Paul Mitchell, Courtney Ervin

PRACTICE AREAS 

• Appellate
• Business Litigation
• Commercial Arbitration
• Construction Litigation
• Environmental and Natural Resource Litigation
• International Arbitration
• Labor and Employment Litigation
• Offshore Energy Litigation
• Energy Litigation
• Toxic Torts
• Real Estate Litigation
• Securities Litigation
• Trade Secret Litigation
• Transportation Litigation

OFFICES
Texas

• Amarillo: 619 S. Tyler Street
• Ste. 80B, TX 79101
• Tel: (806) 310-9990
• Austin: 111 Congress Avenue
• Ste. 1010, TX 78701
• Tel: (512) 827-7990
• Beaumont: 2615 Calder Avenue
• Ste. 720, TX 77702
• Tel: (409) 241-7252
• Houston: 700 Louisiana Street
• Ste. 2300, TX 77002
• Tel: (713) 547-9100

California

• Sacramento: 400 Capitol Mall

Ste. 2530, CA 95814
Tel: (916) 447-4900