Davis Oretsky, P.C. recognizes that our business is based on providing a service; therefore, our clients' needs are paramount. This client-centered approach, backed by the experience and knowledge of our principals and associates, results in legal representation that combines innovation and creativity with the dependability of a trial section in a traditional large firm.

Founded in 1990, (formerly Davis Oretsky & Guilfoyle, P.C.) Davis Oretsky, P.C. has successfully represented clients across Texas in a comprehensive range of trial & appellate matters, as well as in business transactions. The firm has prosecuted and defended complex general and commercial litigation matters on behalf of corporations, institutions, government agencies and individuals. Today, the firm represents a diverse range of national and local clients, aggressively and effectively.

Davis Oretsky, P.C. effectively represents clients by:

• Retaining highly professional and motivated individuals.

• Identifying the unique needs and objectives of our clients.

• Seeking creative solutions on behalf of clients.

• Strategically planning and prosecuting litigation matters with the primary focus on our clients' personal, business, and economic objectives.

• Keeping clients fully apprised of the status of their litigation matters at all times.

• Providing litigation and general legal services on a cost-effective basis tailored to each client's need.

SIGNIFICANT MATTERS

• Davis Oretsky, P.C., representing the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority, obtained a summary judgment dismissing a $400 million antitrust and tortious interference lawsuit.

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. obtained a $2.3 million jury verdict on behalf of First Interstate Bank of Texas (Allied Bank-West, N.A.) against Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, which was subsequently upheld on appeal and settled for $5.6 million including prejudgment interest and attorney's fees. Allied Bank-West, N.A. v. Stein, 996 F.2d 111 (5th Cir. 1993).

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. defended the Mont Belvieu Industrial Association and the Mont Belvieu Program, obtaining a directed verdict, after a five-week jury trial, that dismissed antitrust, constitutional and toxic tort claims filed by over 100 plaintiffs.

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. defended the former president of Bay Area Bank & Trust and obtained a jury verdict rejecting a $5.2 million actual damages and $10.4 million punitive damages claim brought for breach of fiduciary duty and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. defended a Houston law firm and obtained a summary judgment dismissing a $36 million lawsuit involving allegations of fraud, defamation, misrepresentation, and due process violations related to the law firm's investigation of theft charges within the Houston Independent School District.

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. obtained a summary judgment for a Houston law firm dismissing a $160 million legal malpractice claim arising from a lawsuit involving a $14 million note and guaranty.

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. won an arbitration award of approximately $3.6 million on behalf of a major oil field service firm from a Fortune 500 company for breaches of warranties in the Purchase and Sale Agreement involving the acquisition of the international operations of a division of the Fortune 500 company.

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. recovered approximately $1.8 million on behalf of individual investors who had invested in a series of transactions involving an entity which the SEC subsequently had taken over as a Ponzi scheme.

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. participated as local counsel in the seminal case in Texas holding that an absolute pollution exclusion in an insurance policy was unambiguous in excluding coverage for an occurrence involving the escape of hydroflokic acid at a refinery; National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa. v. CBI Industries, Inc., 38 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 332 (Tex. 1995).

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. obtained a summary judgment for a residential developer dismissing claims for $7.5 million actual and $10 million exemplary damages based on burn injuries sustained when a worker employed by an independent contractor came in contact with a high-voltage overhead power line.

• Davis Oretsky, P.C. has defended Texas homebuilders and won jury verdicts dismissing construction and sales claims brought under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Residential Construction Liability Act.