Graig’s prior experience includes:

• Successfully settled dispute against broker/dealer in FINRA arbitration for former NFL athlete; continued representation of athlete against legal and accounting professionals in Texas state court.
• Successfully handled arbitration matter before AAA-Construction Industry for oilfield equipment distributor against chemical company resulting in settlement.
• Represented state agency with Texas AG’s office and resolved twelve wrongful death matters arising from Texas state prison system in 2011 and 2012.
• Successfully resolved indemnity dispute for oil and gas company arising from personal injury dispute against contractor and contractor’s insurer.
• Briefed, argued, and won appeal for an oil and gas component distributor before the United States Fifth Circuit and the Texas Supreme Court successfully establishing insurance coverage and liability against Liberty Insurance Corporation. Reported Opinion: 490 S.W.3d 20.
• Represented co-owner of a small business in a management dispute with multinational company over the operation of the business, including allegations of mismanagement and breach of fiduciary duty. Case settled after one day of trial.
• Successfully handled a breach of gas purchase agreement arising from shift in production balance caused by shale gas boom in the Permian basin between producers and purchaser.
• Successfully represented an independent E&P company against water treatment vendor arising from its shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania.
• Successfully defended an oilfield equipment distributor in defective-product claim against refinery by obtaining favorable settlement of dispute. Subsequently handled distributor’s claim against insurance carrier for failure to defend and indemnify under CGL policy.
• Successfully litigated claim of misappropriation of fiduciary property against employee utilizing eDiscovery to investigate and bring swift resolution of claim.
• Successfully arbitrated claims and defenses for a physician association in an employment dispute with one of its employee-physicians
• Represented an international pipeline company regarding rupture of line pipe against the manufacturer of the pipe, receiving a favorable settlement.
• Represented an international oil and gas company regarding an explosion and fire at its Texas City refinery.
• Represented a chemical company regarding an explosion at one of its Texas facilities.
• Successfully obtained a temporary injunction in federal court for a Brazilian manufacturer resolving the matter within weeks due to strategic advantages of injunction process.
• Successfully obtained a multimillion-dollar award in an ICC arbitration for an international oil and gas company against a Nigerian engineering firm.
• Successfully defended and tried to verdict a multimillion-dollar case asserted against a parent company on claims of Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, fraud and related claims.
• Successfully represented an oil and gas exploration company against an insurer, asserting claims for breach of duty to defend and statutory bad-faith claims.
• Successfully briefed and argued a FOIA appeal against the Department of Labor before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case involving an explosion at a petrochemical facility, Reported Opinion: 280 F.3d 539 (5th Cir. 2002).
• Successfully represented a retail electric provider against an electricity supplier regarding breach of contract and related claims.
• Represented a professional athlete in a case regarding allegations of breach of contract against his former car-racing team owner; the matter was tried and successfully concluded in favor of the client.
• Represented an oil and gas operator in a case involving breach of a joint-operating agreement; the parties eventually entered into a settlement agreement post-trial.
• Represented a manufacturer of oil-field and pipeline valves in a products liability and wrongful-death lawsuit; the case was settled successfully for the client.
• Successfully represented an environmental engineering company against landowners who alleged property damages and personal injury arising from Superfund remediation.
• Successfully represented and settled a dispute between an oil and gas operator and South Texas landowners who made environmental claims associated with oil-field operations.

Bar/Court Admissions

• Licensed in Texas since 1997
• S. District Courts of Texas: Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts
• S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit

Education

South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas

J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence – 1997; cum laude

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Major: Mechanical Engineering

• Texas Super Lawyer
• American Bar Association
• Houston Bar Association
• ESCAPE Family Resource Center, Member of Board of Directors, 2007-2014
• Texas Transnational Law Quarterly, Member of Editorial Board, 2006-2008
• National Moot Court Championship Team, 1997

• Speaker, “Who Are Best Positioned to Decide Disputes Arising Out of the Shale Gas Boom: Arbitrators or Judges,” International Energy Arbitration Conference, February 2014
• Speaker, “Are you Ready? Managing the Major Corporate Crisis,” Texas CLE Presentation, 2012, 2013
• Speaker, “Catastrophic Events: Assisting Your Client to Plan and Deal with a Crisis,” Advanced Oil & Gas Short Course, February 2009
• Instructor, “International Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation,” Universidad Panamerica, December 2008
• Speaker, Panel Discussion, “Catastrophic Events,” October 2008
• Contributor, “International Litigation: Defending and Suing Foreign Parties in U.S. Federal Courts”, American Bar Association, 2003
• Co-author, Practical Guide for Conducting Extraterritorial Discovery for Use in U.S. Litigation, 2001
• Author, “Adarand v. Pena-The Supreme Court’s Continuing Journey to the Legal High Ground”, South Texas Law Review, 1995