Areas of Practice

Each business has its own risks, its own vocabulary, and its own unwritten terms. To adequately represent a client, a lawyer must be familiar with that client’s industry. He or she must also be interested in understanding new developments within an industry. To that end, MHN has consistently sought lawyers with inquisitive minds and specialized knowledge in the areas of:

• Products liability including automotive, electrical, tire and tread separation, farm implements, construction equipment, elevator and escalator liability, and consumer product cases.

• Insurance litigation including coverage actions, first party fraud, and bad faith actions.

• Personal injury, property damage and other economic losses, including wrongful death actions, survivor claims, catastrophic injury claims, nursing home liability, church liability, and false imprisonment.

• Contract claims, including disputes between contractors, manufacturer/retailer breach, lease disputes, commercial sales contract interpretation and enforcement, and employment contract claims.

• Commercial fraud, including common law fraud, arson, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) claims, Lanham Act violations, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA).

• Explosions and fire related losses, including oilfield and industrial catastrophes.

• Employment practices litigation including age, sex, race, and disability discrimination, wrongful termination, non-competition litigation and retaliatory discharge.

• Construction litigation including both personal injury and property damage claims, construction defects and OSHA violations.

• Trucking litigation including disputes involving property loss and the consequential resulting damages as well as personal injury and catastrophic claims resulting from vehicular collisions. We have also litigated catastrophes emanating from spills of hazardous materials and resulting personal injury and property damage.

• Retailer liability, including Deceptive Trade Practices Act litigation, other consumer protection litigation, lemon laws, dealership liability, dramshop liability, Truth in Lending Act litigation, dealership disclosure liability, and innocent retailer indemnification.

• Defamation including slander, libel and product disparagement.

• Professional liability including medical, dental, and legal malpractice as well as claims of negligence against directors and officers (D&O), and errors and omissions claims against professionals such as architects and engineers (E&O).

• Premises liability, including premises condition issues, security issues, retailer liability, and contractor liability.

• Toxic tort and environmental exposure cases, including asbestosis, silicosis and other toxic tort claims.

• Homeowners’ Association liability, including deed restriction cases and claims against board members.