Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Weil secured numerous victories for General Motors in litigation alleging automobile product defects. General Motors hired Weil as coordination counsel after being sued in at least 22 different states at once; the lawsuits included both class actions and wrongful death cases. Once Weil centrally coordinated the production of all of the client’s documents and discovery activities, the team’s strategy was to defend the cases based on the conduct of the individual drivers. The strategy proved extremely successful: we won more than 40 jury verdicts in high-stakes automotive design liability and product defect cases involving serious personal injuries in some of the most challenging jurisdictions in this country.
• Fraud
  Weil’s Litigation Department also has one of the deepest résumés for successful high-stakes litigation outcomes on behalf of the world’s most sophisticated life sciences companies. Our experience includes consumer fraud class actions for leading pharmaceutical companies, high-stakes patent disputes for biotech and medical device innovators, product liability litigation relating to major pharmaceutical products, and government and internal investigations for high-profile players in the life sciences space. Many of our litigators have technical backgrounds relating to life sciences and deep experience with a broad array of relevant technologies.
• Restraining Order
  Following appellate briefing led by Weil, the court denied our adversaries’ motions for discretionary review of a lower court’s order that denied defendants’ motions to dismiss and granted our clients’ motion to preliminarily enjoin the 10 departing member universities from continuing to serve on the Conference’s board. This is the third consecutive victory Weil has secured for its clients in this dispute, following earlier rulings in which the trial court granted our request for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Clients globally turn to Weil for strategic advice on their U.K. and cross-border M&A transactions. The experienced team is knowledgeable across the full range of deal types from takeovers, carve-outs and public-to-privates to joint ventures and distressed M&A. Weil’s public company offering also includes corporate governance and compliance, and equity capital markets (including IPOs).
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Clients involved in sophisticated infrastructure transactions benefit from Weil’s interdisciplinary approach to these engagements. Our team includes lawyers with extensive experience in direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, finance, real estate, tax and regulatory matters.
• Business Disputes
  D Magazine ’s Best Lawyers in Dallas list in 2024, for the tenth consecutive year. Previously, Courtney was named to the 2022 Women in Business Law Guide in
• Business Transactions
  Our Miami Litigation lawyers represent clients on a wide range of issues, including alleged fraud and unfair practices class actions, product liability, antitrust, securities, real estate, intellectual property, corporate and general business transactions. We litigate cases in federal and state courts across the country, including handling cases before arbitration tribunals in numerous jurisdictions. We also conduct internal investigations for clients and counsel them on litigation avoidance and crisis management.
• Construction Contracts
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Weil’s 80-lawyer, cross-disciplinary, cross-office team continues to leave an imprint on the media and entertainment industry and to break new ground for some of the largest, best-known companies in the world. Our lawyers regularly advise on multibillion-dollar transactions and related financings and try complex contractual and licensing disputes, in addition to providing counseling on myriad trademark, copyright and other intellectual property issues.
• Unfair Competition
  Weil achieved a sweeping victory in March 2022 for client CareDx following a five-day jury trial in Delaware federal court, when a jury returned a nearly $45M verdict in CareDx’s favor against competitor Natera. The jury found that Natera intentionally and willfully engaged in false advertising in the promotion of its kidney transplant rejection assessment test that deliberately deceived the organ transplant community, and awarded CareDx $21.2M in compensatory damages and $23.7M in punitive damages under the Lanham Act, the Delaware Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Delaware unfair competition law.
• Antitrust
  Weil also has litigators in Dallas who advise clients on a range of high-profile matters. Our Dallas litigation team advises clients based in and out of Texas on a range of disputes in Texas and other state and federal courts, before arbitration panels, and in mediations. Mirroring the capabilities of the Firm’s global Litigation Department, our Dallas litigators handle all aspects of our clients’ most important disputes, including pre-dispute counseling, filing and defending complaints and engaging in motion practice, discovery, trial, and appeals. We focus on high-stakes financial disputes, antitrust litigation, investigations, large-scale class actions, shareholder disputes, bankruptcy, restructuring, and creditor litigation, and other complex matters.

Employment Law

• Sexual Harassment
  The National Women’s Soccer League Players Association in coordinating and leading a high-profile, headline-making joint investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, abusive coaching, and toxic environments around the league.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
• Construction Litigation
• Property Damage
  Weil obtained a significant victory on behalf of client SEACOR Holdings Inc. when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s dismissal, with prejudice, of all claims against SEACOR and its subsidiaries, who owned and operated marine vessels that responded to the emergency following the April 20, 2010 incident on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. A group of Louisiana landowners, commercial fishermen, and oil and gas industry employees brought suit against the owners and operators of the response vessels in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana alleging that the water they directed toward the fire caused the Deepwater Horizon rig to flood and sink, which in turn caused the riser pipe connected to the wellhead to collapse, resulting in the ensuing oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico – the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Plaintiffs asserted claims for property damage and economic losses under general maritime law, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, and Louisiana state law. The district court rejected plaintiffs’ claims that defendants should have known that attempting to cool the fire on the offshore rig would cause it to sink and then leak oil, finding that “a reasonable person in Defendants’ situation would not foresee” such a thing. The Court noted that its decision was consistent with the long-embraced public policy under maritime law that encourages seamen to render prompt service during emergencies, generally unknown in land-based common law.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Weil served as lead counsel overseeing the defense of Toyobo, a major Japanese fiber manufacturer, in connection with False Claims Act litigation brought by the U.S. DOJ, class action litigation, multiple personal injury suits, and claims by multiple state attorneys general and foreign states, among others, relating to the performance of Toyobo’s Zylon fiber in bullet-resistant vests used by thousands of law enforcement agencies worldwide. In 2018, Weil negotiated a settlement of all remaining claims after securing a number of successful outcomes in the various lawsuits.

Trusts and Estates

• Wills
  Some of the largest global financial institutions have also turned to Weil for advice on establishing resolution plans, commonly referred to as “living wills,” which are required of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act. Weil's Financial Institutions Regulatory lawyers team with their Bankruptcy/Restructuring peers to provide invaluable advice in connection with establishing a plan for a rapid and orderly resolution in the event of material financial distress or failure of a systemically important financial institution.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  The Houston office has both a national reputation for excellence in restructuring, and private equity/M&A with a focus on energy – and a significant Texas presence. Our attorneys served as lead counsel on two of the largest chapter 11 bankruptcy cases ever filed, have advised clients in multibillion-dollar deals in oil and gas, and obtained a significant summary judgment victory defeating a non-compete provision in Texas state court.
• Tax Law
  Comprehensive knowledge of how the complex and continually evolving nature of tax law plays a crucial role in corporate transactions, restructurings and other commercial matters. Weil’s Tax lawyers deliver value to clients by providing creative, strategic solutions that make sound business sense and are pragmatic commercially.