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When you hire a law firm,
you have a choice.
When you hire a law firm, you have a choice.
You can go with a big firm and get the security of an
established, well-known name. You’ll also get plenty of
billable hours, associates in training and, if you’re lucky,
someone who can find the courthouse.
Or you can hire real trial lawyers — even if you hope to
avoid a trial.
Those are the people and companies that hire us. At
Rose • Walker, we begin trying your case the day we start
working on it. We know most cases never make it to court,
and perhaps yours won’t.
But we also believe that a willingness to go to court and a
record of accomplishment there – we have both – can have
an effect on settlement discussions.
And because we’re not a big firm, we can talk to you about
billing arrangements that work best for all of us.
M AIN AR EA S OF P RACTICE
Complex Commercial
Litigation
Businesses don’t always work and play well with others.
Rose • Walker handles complex business litigation, representing corporations
and individuals, plaintiffs and defendants, in all manner of business disputes.
>> Raytheon E-Systems Inc. v. Learjet Inc.
When Raytheon won a government contract to supply high technology planes to
the FAA, the company turned to Learjet for part of the fleet. A key requirement
was temperature: the delicate FAA equipment had to be maintained at all times
in a narrow band of temperatures. Learjet said it could deliver, when it knew
that wasn’t true. When Raytheon discovered the planes were non-compliant, it
spent millions fixing them and sent Learjet the bill, which it refused to pay. In
court, Rose • Walker secured a verdict that made Raytheon whole and included
significant punitive damages against Learjet for lying about the plane’s ability to
cool the equipment.
Intellectual Property
Companies with IP issues need two things from their legal team: a patent attorney
who understands the technology and a trial lawyer who can explain it all to a jury.
Rose • Walker has both.
>> Deep Nines Inc. v. McAfee Inc.
Defense of McAfee in a patent-infringement and false-marking lawsuit brought by
Deep Nines. Rose • Walker won summary judgment on the issue of
non-infringement on all but one of McAfee's products and was able to negotiate a
reasonable licensing fee with Deep Nines for the use of its patent without buckling
to a nine-figure settlement demand.
Labor & Employment
Rose • Walker represents both corporations and individuals.
>> Neal Fisher v. Pinnacle Anesthesia Consultants, LLP
When Dr. Neal Fisher raised questions about the business practices of the company
that owns his medical group — Pinnacle — the company began spreading false
stories about his competence and fired him. In court, Rose • Walker proved those
stories were lies and won a significant judgment on the doctor’s behalf for defamation
and breach of contract. The verdict and judgment were later upheld on appeal.
Products Liability
Commitment: It means buying enough airplane engines to prove your client —
a steel-forging company — was right and the other guys were wrong.
>> Interstate Southwest LTD v. Avco Corporation, et al.
When a number of small airplanes experienced engine failure and crashed,
engine-maker Lycoming blamed a small Texas company that made the
crankshaft forgings, and the FAA agreed. We got involved and started buying
and testing Lycoming engines and became the second largest owner of
Lycoming engines in the world. In the midst of a worldwide recall of Lycoming
engines, we proved the fault was in Lycoming’s original design, not our client’s
work. Significant jury finding, subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court of
Texas; the verdict nullified Lycoming’s $186 million counterclaim.
We’re not afraid of the courthouse
and you shouldn’t be either.
Personal Injury
Rose • Walker represents both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury matters,
including many that involve the trucking industry.
>> Vicky Dunn v. USF Bestway Inc.
Vicky Dunn was the wife of a local county judge who sued USF Bestway
following an accident with one of its trucks. We tried the case in the plaintiff’s
backyard and won a defense verdict, even though Ms. Dunn had the right of way.
>> Diane Coggins et al v. KLLM Inc., et al.
Seventeen-year-old Lindsey Garretson was on her way to see a relative when
debris in the road caused traffic to stop. But the tractor-trailer behind her didn’t;
instead, it plowed into her car and pushed it 450 feet. She died in the post-crash
fire. Verdict for the Garretson family, upheld on appeal.
Representative Clients
Allianz
AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Brinker
Cappsco International, Inc.
Chartis Insurance
Citation Corporation
C.V. Starr
DuPont
L-3 Communications
McAfee, Inc.
NCI Group, Inc.
Petroleum Helicopters
Raytheon
Tecumseh Products Company
Teledyne
YRC Worldwide
PARTNER S
Eleven minutes.
That’s how long a jury in Mississippi deliberated in one of
Marty Rose’s cases before coming back with a verdict in
favor of a trucking company he was defending in a
wrongful death case.
In more than 35 years of trying lawsuits, Marty has
represented businesses and individuals, plaintiffs and
defendants, giant corporations and small startups. Twice,
The National Law Journal has included his verdicts in
lists of the Top 100 verdicts in the U.S., and he has been
named to top lawyer lists by Texas Lawyer, Dallas
Business Journal, Texas Super Lawyers and Lawdragon.
Chris McDowell represents his clients as plaintiffs
and defendants in commercial litigation and
business tort cases.
Representing large corporations and individuals, his
cases have included claims of trade-secret
misappropriation; business, partnership and contract
disputes; products liability; and personal injury.
If it flies, Don Swaim has probably been involved in
a case where it didn’t fly quite right.
Time and again, he has represented aircraft owners,
operators and manufacturers in courtrooms around
the country. In addition, his practice involves
products liability, premises liability and personal injury.
Don is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by
the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and in Civil
Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
He has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has
been named to the list of Texas Super Lawyers.
If the rest of us know how to spell IP, then
John Pinkerton’s the guy who actually knows
what it means.
John’s a patent attorney with 30 years of
experience in IP cases, with an emphasis on
patent infringement. His areas of expertise include
patent, trademark and copyright litigation; patent
and trademark license agreements; and opinions of
counsel on issues of patent infringement, validity
and enforceability.
Lynda Lee Weaver doesn’t just represent clients; she
knows them, and their families. And she goes beyond
just understanding what’s happened. She cares.
That kind of empathy, combined with the fact that
she’s a fixture at the courthouse, makes Lynda Lee
an attorney clients trust with their most important
legal matters. She has spent more than 20 years as
a trial lawyer, representing people and businesses in
a variety of cases that include personal injury and
commercial claims.
Hire real trial lawyers.
It’s just not true.
Too many people think that defending a business
means you have to be on the defensive.
Mike Richardson knows that isn’t the case and that
smart business people sometimes take on the role
of plaintiff rather than wait for the other side to come
after them.
His clients, both businesses and individuals,
appreciate that approach. Mike wins praise from
them and from the likes of the Dallas Business
Journal, which named him to its list of top defense
attorneys, and from Texas Super Lawyers, which
has honored him as well.
Ross Cunningham will go anywhere to try a
case. Even a FEMA trailer.
It happened following Hurricane Katrina and didn’t
break his stride one bit. Ross has handled all
sorts of trials for his business clients, including
cases that involved aviation, intellectual property,
insurance, and labor and employment issues. He
even represented a Texas county in a 150-year-old
dispute over the proper location of a county line.
Ross has been named to the list of Texas Rising
Stars four times as one of the top young lawyers in
the state.
Steve Sanfelippo is a very busy guy.
He’s responsible for all of Rose•Walker’s appellate
work. In a firm that either tries cases or uses the threat
of a trial to move them toward a better settlement, he
doesn’t get much rest. That’s because he understands
that good appellate work means being involved in the
pretrial and trial stages of a case, not just after the jury
comes back.
Steve has been named to the list of Texas Rising Stars.
WHY TH E CA RTOONS ?
Sometimes people wonder why we
use cartoons in our ads. It’s certainly
OK, repeat
after me!
not the approach you would get with
a big, stuffy, walnut-paneled law firm.
And that’s the point.
We’re not like those other guys.
Oh sure, we’ve got plenty of
big-firm experience.
Litigators learn their craft.
Well, I’ve never
actually taken
a case to trial
Your Honor.
But where others might look at your
case and see billable hours, we see a
problem we can solve by going to court
if necessary, or by using the threat of
court action to get a better settlement.
Senior Litigator? Guess Again!
Yes, I’m prepping for
that trial right now.
We also like having fun and poking fun
at our profession every now and then.
So have a laugh on us. But remember
that we’re very serious about your
business — just like you are.
On the case or on the course?
Trial lawyers for business people.TM
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