About Bill Garrison
BUSINESS ATTORNEY
Bill is a business attorney, licensed in both Texas and California, with ten (10) years of experience focused on business law, including litigation, corporate governance and employment issues. He is experienced in managing cases of all levels of complexity and scope.
EXAMPLE LEGAL EXPERIENCE
- Ongoing representation of federal court-appointed receiver in extensive litigation designed to recover investor monies from fraudulent Ponzi schemes.
- Represented two minority shareholders of large food corporation in multi-jurisdiction litigation challenging propriety of reverse stock split and corporate governance. Corporation paid clients $10.76/share at time of transaction. Obtained $37.00/share (additional $2.2 million) through settlement on tenth day of trial that I co-chaired with California counsel.
- Defended several computer programmers and management personnel accused of misappropriating trade secret and copyright information from two large defense contractors and using such information to start competive technology business.
- Took client’s fraudulent transfer case to trial and gained not only a sizable judgment but also “alter ego” liability against individual shareholder of defendant corporation.
- Successfully resolved gender discrimination employment complaint against for-profit and non-profit Texas corporations.
- Took client’s business fraud case to trial and gained a 12-0 jury verdict and significant monetary and punitive damages.
- Defended client’s furniture import business from Chinese corporation seeking $2 million based on claims of breach of contract and trade secret misappropriation. Chinese corporation dismissed lawsuit without any payment of any kind.
- Successfully defended accounting firm from trust and corporation seeking over $1 million based on claims of negligent misrepresentation, breach of third-party beneficiary contract and professional negligence.
- Co-authored summary judgment motion that defeated Mexican corporation’s multi-million-dollar claims against Wal-Mart for RICO violations and unfair competition in the distribution and sale of instant soup.
- Successfully defended debtor-in-possession California corporation from $60 million contract claim concerning extensive real estate located in Mexico.
- Gained summary judgment of female student’s high-profile claim of gender discrimination (against high school football coach) on behalf of large California school disctrict.
BAR MEMBERSHIPS AND COURT ADMISSIONS
State Bar of California, December 1998 to Present; State Bar of Texas, March 2004 to Present; Admitted to Practice Before the Ninth Circuit and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal and United States District Courts: Southern District of California, Northern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas
ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS
American Bar Association, including Corporate Law Section; Dallas County Bar Association, including Business Law and Litigation Sections and Ethics Committee; San Diego County Bar Association, including Litigation Section; Association of Business Trial Lawyers; Founder of the Thomas Paine Society of Dallas; Texas Exes (University of Texas Alumni Association); rabid Longhorn fan
