HOUSTON – One of AZA’s unanimous jury verdicts for a Houston-based energy company was named in the National Law Journal’s Top 100 Verdicts of 2023.
The verdict was a $41.8 million win from a South Texas jury in an oil and gas trespass case against Energy Transfer. The McMullen County jury found AZA client SilverBow Resources and Hogan Thompson’s client El Dorado Gas & Oil were damaged by Energy Transfer’s trespass
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The jury found that Energy Transfer interfered with the exploration and production rights of the two smaller energy companies with injections of natural gas processing waste byproducts in the subsurface. The case was covered by Law360 and Texas Lawyer.
SilverBow, an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, was represented by AZA partners Todd Mensing, Taylor Freeman, Jane Robinson and Cameron Byrd and associates Harrison Scheer, Hilary Greene and Thomas Cooke. The case is SilverBow Resources Operating LLC and El Dorado Gas & Oil, Inc. v. ETC Field Services, LLC et al. The case number is M-14-0029-CV-C in the McMullen County 343rd District Court.
AZA frequently makes top verdict lists in Texas and nationally. The full lists for 2023 are available here: Top 100 Verdicts Nationally in 2023 and Top 50 Verdicts in Texas in 2023 – TopVerdict.com.
Also on the top 50 Texas list was a Fort Bend County jury verdict of $9 million against prominent Odessa businessman Toby Eoff and others involved in a conspiracy against DistributionNOW (DNOW), a leading global supplier of energy and industrial products and services
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AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing, is a Houston-based law firm that is home to true courtroom lawyers with a formidable track record in complex commercial litigation, including energy, healthcare, intellectual property and business dispute cases. AZA is recognized by Chambers USA 2024 as among the best in Texas in commercial law and intellectual property; has been listed by Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms as one of the country’s best commercial litigation firms for 12 years; has been named Litigation Department of the Year by Texas Lawyer three times; and was previously dubbed a Texas Powerhouse law firm by Law360.