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The firm's Governmental Section offers many years of expertise in the diverse fields of litigation involving governmental entities and their departments, officials and employees. From First Amendment to land use and zoning claims, and from employment to tort or civil rights cases, the firm's Governmental Section litigators have successfully defended numerous Texas municipalities, police and fire departments, school districts and hundreds of individual government officials and employees. The Section also provides pre-suit investigative, evaluative and counseling services for clients, and has often contracted to assist Texas municipalities in handling Public Information Act requests and Civil Service Commission matters on a regular basis.
Cases involving governmental entities in Texas are specialized matters, and a unique array of issues, defenses and statutory mandates apply. It stands to reason that attorneys practicing in this area must therefore be well versed in such specialized areas of the law. The firm's Governmental Section delivers such expertise, not only to its governmental clients, but often to those corporations or individuals dealing with government, such as contractors that defend and indemnify governmental entities.
Moreover, our Governmental Section's expertise goes beyond the book and extends to the courtroom. Our attorneys have tried numerous cases in state and federal court, and have also successfully argued appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Texas Supreme Court. Knowledge is limited in value if it cannot be communicated, and the Governmental Section knows how to communicate their expertise to juries, judges and clients. In this context, our attorneys have also become very well versed in many of the problems unique to governmental clients that are created when the worlds of politics, media and the courtroom overlap. The experience and understanding our attorneys bring to a case in this regard can be invaluable to helping our clients successfully resolve their problems.
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