Schiffer Hicks Johnson is proud to announce that partner Adam Dinnell was named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2021 40 & Under Hot List, which recognizes the best and brightest law firm partners under 40 in the United States and Canada. According to Benchmark, the lawyers named to this annual list are “ambitious and accomplished … able to adapt to rapidly changing times … [and] ready to take the reins from previous generations.”

SHJ is proud to welcome our largest-ever class of summer associates to the firm. Adam Greiner is a 2L at The University of Texas School of Law, where he volunteers with the Expunction Project as part of the school’s Mithoff Pro Bono Program. He earned a B.A. in History from the College of William & Mary.

We are pleased to welcome our inaugural class of summer law interns, Katherine Dyer and Ben Blefeld, to the firm. Katherine and Ben are both 1Ls at the University of Houston Law Center (UHLC). SHJ established the Summer Law Intern Program as part of our ongoing commitment to cultivating lawyers from the local community. The program, which recruits exclusively from Houston-area law schools, gives 1L students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience at a successful trial firm and position themselves as outstanding candidates for top summer associate programs the following year.

On June 4, 2021, we filed suit in Jefferson County District Court on behalf of 57 Texas High Plains wine grape growers seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from Bayer-Monsanto and BASF, who allegedly sold a defective seed system featuring a highly volatile weed killer that crippled the grape growers’ vineyards.

Over the past few months, we’ve been working to provide our clients with actionable insights into emerging legal developments, enhance our recruiting efforts,…

Matthew Davis, Justin Safady, and Brandon Winchester of Schiffer Hicks Johnson have been named to the 2021 Texas Rising Stars List.

SHJ is looking for exceptional law students who share our bold energy and passion for intellectual challenges. We offer a diverse, collegial, and…

SHJ is pleased to welcome our first class of project assistants, Angie Vertti and Sina Shahnizadeh, to the firm.

We’ve been hard at work amplifying our recruiting efforts and expanding our capabilities to meet our clients’ evolving needs. Our fall newsletter offers…

Partners Marc Tabolsky and Penny Nicholson won an appeal on behalf of Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London in a case the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit described as “byzantine,” with more than $50 million in controversy.

SHJ is pleased to welcome associate Bryan Zubay to our team. We’ve asked Bryan to discuss his prior work experience, first impressions of SHJ, and commitment to LGBTQ pro bono work.

SHJ partner Dan Hinde has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

SHJ is representing the litigation trustee in the sprawling, two-year bankruptcy case against Lubbock, Texas-based Reagor Dykes Auto Group. As special litigation counsel to the debtors, and now as counsel to the litigation trustee, SHJ partners Marc Tabolsky and Andy Hicks have filed multiple claims seeking more than $60 million on behalf of the Reagor Dykes bankruptcy estate and creditors’ trust.

A pro bono team comprised of SHJ partner Adam Dinnell as well as longstanding members Samy Khalil (Gerger Khalil Hennessy & McFarlane), Chad Flores (Beck Redden), Jay Ewart (Arnold & Porter), and Karen Otto (Arnold & Porter) recently obtained a rare victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Benchmark Litigation named founding partner Adam Schiffer a “Local Litigation Star” in its 2021 guide to the nation’s leading litigation firms and practitioners.

In 2018, Bernice Heiderman, a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer serving in Comoros, an island off the east coast of Africa, died of undiagnosed malaria, raising serious concerns about the quality of the Peace Corps’ medical care. Now, SHJ partner Adam Dinnell is helping Bernice’s parents file a lawsuit against the agency.

SHJ is pleased to welcome summer associate Dave Finkel to our team. Dave is a rising 3L at the University of Chicago Law…

SHJ is pleased to welcome summer associate Fatima Aslam to our team. Fatima recently graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center with an LL.M. in International Business and Economic Law and a Certificate in International Arbitration.

We are pleased to announce that Fatima and David will be joining our team this summer.