Any Trial. Any Court. Anytime.
There’s no substitute for a twenty-five-year career of courtroom advocacy, industry knowledge, and a fierce readiness to try cases. Social media is not the courthouse.
Will has tried cases from the state’s largest venues (Harris, Dallas, Bexar, and Travis Counties) to its smallest (Glasscock County – pop. 1169). He’s tried cases in the upstream energy capitals (Midland, Ector, Reeves, and Brazos Counties) and the downstream refining locations (Nueces, Jefferson, Galveston, and Orange Counties). He’s tried cases and litigated complex personal injury claims in each of the state’s four federal district courts. In short, Will has Texas covered.
Will’s practice chiefly involves serious personal injury or wrongful death cases involving oilfield and industrial workplace accidents, interstate trucking/commercial & fleet transportation, and product liability claims.
Will was lead trial counsel or defense liaison counsel for several petrochemical refinery explosions with numerous catastrophic injuries which were brought as MDLs or similar multi-claim consolidation. He’s served as lead trial counsel on countless transportation claims involving energy companies, national interstate trucking companies, truck brokers, shippers, and third-party logistics companies. He’s also represented world-wide automobile and tire manufacturers in product liability litigation all over the country – many as part of nationwide MDLs.
Will’s reputation as a leader within the Texas defense bar for effectively handling and defending companies against complicated and catastrophic injury cases has placed him in several high profile complicated catastrophic injury cases. As an example, he fielded multiple calls from domestic and London-based insurers seeking his representation in the immediate wake of the Astroworld Festival tragedy in 2021 before accepting the defense of the Festival Operations Director. If there was a high stakes catastrophic injury case in Texas in the last five years, there’s a good chance someone hired or tried to hire Will to defend it.
Courtroom skills aside, one of the virtues Will brings to the Plaintiff’s side is a unique understanding of the world-wide excess insurance market. Will was regularly asked to monitor catastrophic claims for the London and Bermuda insurance markets where their insurance attachments can exceed $100,000,000. Few attorneys know how the intra-tower relationships by the constructed insurance layers and quota share allocations work as a combined insuring unit and how they manage high-exposure litigation better than Will. He knows how they think. He knows the pressure points. He knows the re-insurance scheme and hierarchy related to claims. And he knows how they react to policy-limit or Stowers demands and how they view their equitable subrogation rights against insurers down the stack. Frankly, Will knows what the excess insurance market needs to see to settle a case.
