J Clifton Hall III

Practice Areas

Energy

Professional Indemnity

Insurance

Complex Commercial Litigation

Subrogation

Career

J. Clifton Hall III is a founding shareholder of Hall Maines Lugrin, which was started in 2000 as Westmoreland Hall. He practices mainly in the energy, property and casualty, construction, and professional indemnity sectors with a concentration on insurance coverage disputes, related commercial disputes, and subrogation matters.

Mr. Hall is frequently asked to comment on and assist in the development of new policy wordings. He has advised insurers on coverage claims in both upstream (offshore and onshore), midstream and downstream coverage issues.

He has worked on numerous professional indemnity matters for lawyers, accountants and nursing home coverages as well as general and excess liability, political risk and various types of business interruption (and LOPI) claims. Mr. Hall also represents non-insurer clients in a variety of commercial disputes.

His experience and pervasive knowledge of insurance-related cases has resulted in him arguing before the appellate courts of Louisiana and Texas (including in each state’s Supreme Court) as well as the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Hall has also tried and arbitrated cases in the courts of Oklahoma, Alaska, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois.

Mr. Hall first earned recognition in the 2021 Chambers USA guide for “Insurance-Texas.” He has been listed in Chambers USA as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” since 2010 and is consistently ranked as one of the top leading lawyers for insurance coverage by Texas Super Lawyers. He has been listed in Chambers USA as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2010 and has an “AV” rating in Martindale Hubbell.

Professional Memberships

Federal Bar Association; Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; American Bar Association;

Texas Bar Association; Louisiana Bar Association; Houston Bar Association; Life Fellow, Texas Law Foundation; The Maritime Law Association

Publications

Offshore Energy Insurance, 83 Tulane Law Review 1304 (2009)

Personal

Speaking Engagements:

Panelist on Houston Bar Association presentation: First Party Insurance Issues Arising from the Pandemic, September 25, 2020;

Offshore Industry in the 21st Century: Practice, Procedure and Liability, The Maritime Law Association of the United States and the Iberoamerican Institute of Maritime Law, Fall Meeting of the MLA and 18th Congress of the IIDM, Continuing Legal Education and Academic Program, 2013 (panel speaker);

Settlement, Mediation, and Arbitration: Using Alternative Dispute Resolution to Avoid Costly and Damaging Litigation, American Conference Institute’s National Forum on Defending and Managing Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, 2012 (panel speaker);

Offshore Energy Coverages, Tulane Admiralty Institute, 2009;

Changing Roles in the Claims Process, Role of the Energy Claims Attorney: Litigation at All Costs?, Lillehammer Energy Claim Conference, 2008 (panel speaker);

So Your Platform Disappeared in the Hurricane, UT CLE 17th Annual Admiralty and Maritime Conference, 2008 (panel moderator);

Energy Claims Panel – Loss of Production Income in the Wake of Hurricane Ivan, Houston Marine Insurance Seminar, 2005 (panel speaker)

Work Highlights

Admissions:

Courts of the State of New York (2019); Courts of the State of Texas (1998); Courts of the State of Louisiana (1982); United States District Courts of Louisiana and Texas

Education

Awards