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George Murphy

George Murphy

USA 2026

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George is Co-Practice Group Leader of V&E’s Condemnation and Land Use Litigation practice group. Selected as Best Lawyers of America’s Houston Eminent Domain Lawyer of the Year for 2019, George’s trial practice is principally focused on the representation of private property owners involved in eminent domain lawsuits wherein the State, counties, municipalities, and other government authorities seek to acquire his clients’ property. He has extensive first chair jury trial experience confirmed by his invited membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). George has represented owners of properties of all types, including retail, commercial, industrial, and residential properties. George has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the publications Best Lawyers in America and by Texas Super Lawyers for his extensive experience in Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law.

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Paul M. Hebert Law School at Louisiana State University, J.D., 1994 (Order of the Coif; Louisiana Law Review)

Northeast Louisiana University, B.A. with honors, 1991

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Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use - Texas

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George Murphy specializes in representing property owners in litigation arising out of contested eminent domain acquisitions.

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