Harry M. Reasoner

In American General Insurance Company v. Continental Airlines, obtained a $117 million judgment (net) for the plaintiff in a Delaware shareholder litigation

Obtained in arbitration between Westlake Monomers Corp. v. B.F. Goodrich Co. the dismissal of a $300 million preferential purchase rights claim against the defendant

Obtained an award in an eight-month arbitration in the District of Columbia for an oil and gas company over the allocation of responsibility for product defects between manufacturers in a polybutylene pipe litigation

(S.D. Tex.) — Obtained summary judgment on antitrust claims and dismissal of telecommunications claims in a $600 million case brought by Premiere Network Services, Inc. against SBC Communications, Inc

In First Nationwide Bank v. FDIC, obtained a $89 million judgment (net) for a leading financial institution against the United States for retroactive legislation improperly depriving it of tax benefits in savings and loan bailouts

(5th Cir.) — In Sandwich Chef of Texas v. Reliance National Indemnity Insurance Co., et al., obtained decertification in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit of a nationwide RICO class against the nation’s workman’s compensation insurers

(Tex.) — For Central and South West Corp., obtained a reversal of Texas PUC orders (1) excluding $2 billion in nuclear power plant construction costs and (2) retroactively lowering rates and denying tens of millions of dollars in tax benefits on behalf of major public utilities in four separate cases before the Supreme Court of Texas

(5th Cir.) — In Stinnett, et al. v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co., obtained affirmance in the Fifth Circuit of the denial of a $500 million claim by oil and gas royalty owners

(5th Cir.) — In Doe v. MySpace, obtained affirmation by the Fifth Circuit of dismissal of a highly publicized, unprecedented case arising from the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl by a man she allegedly met on MySpace.com