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.

No one could describe the first quarter of 2020 as “business as usual.” Our spring newsletter offers timely insight into pressing COVID-19 issues, from genetic typing in tort litigation to cyberattacks, involuntary quarantines, and emerging trends in force majeure.

Schiffer Hicks Johnson PLLC is proud to announce that three of its lawyers have been selected as “Texas Rising Stars” by Texas Monthly…

A settlement between the bankruptcy estate of Reagor Dykes Auto Group and Vista Bank was approved in federal bankruptcy court on February 26,…

As court-appointed special litigation counsel in the Reagor-Dykes bankruptcy case, SHJ lawyers Marc Tabolsky and Andy Hicks are tasked with untangling a web…

Meet the newest member of our legal team: Benjamin Cohen. Ben handles a wide range of commercial litigation matters and business disputes. During…

Adam Dinnell will be speaking at the Federal Bar Association Rising Professionals Symposium (March 20-21, 2020) on the use of genomic evidence in…

Update: Summary judgment was upheld by the First Court of Appeals in Houston, while the Texas State Supreme Court declined to review. The…

After an Illinois coal mine experienced a mine fire due to the spontaneous combustion of coal, the mine operator withheld years’ worth of…

Houston, TX, January 7, 2020—Bees360, a tech startup that leverages artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and drone technology to provide residential property damage adjusting…

It has been a busy time at the firm. Our Winter 2019 newsletter includes three trial victories for Energy and Healthcare clients, announces…

Our Fall 2018 newsletter features a great result on an Energy Case, a “Tech Tip” for producing documents, and our representation of a…

Schiffer Hicks Johnson is pleased to announce that Kathleen Rose has joined the firm as a partner. Kathleen, a seasoned trial and appellate…