Representative Matters
Hoover Kernell LLP has represented clients ranging from small businesses to multi-national corporations in complex commercial disputes and employment-related matters. The firm’s experienced attorneys provide every client with strategic and practical advice at reasonable rates, reflective of today’s ever-changing business and legal environments.
Representative litigation experience includes:
- Defending a local demolition company in a $50 million environmental dispute
- Defending a global manufacturer from RICO and fraud claims
- Representing a global retailer in defending multiple wage and hour collective and class actions around the country
- Defending a global pharmaceutical company in state and federal claims of wage and hour violations
- Prosecuting a US-based company’s claim against its former chief executive and chief financial officer for breach of fiduciary duties in excess of $10 million
- Defending a global software company against a former employee’s SOX whistleblower claims
- Representing a local energy company against claims raised under a PSA for failure to deliver clear title
- Representing a small doctor-owned hospital against major hospital system in antitrust case involving a horizontal boycott by health insurance companies organized by the hospital system
- Responding to charges of discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour violations on behalf of a large US bank
- Prosecuting and defending breach of contract, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty claims arising from asset purchase by clients
- Representing companies and individual in district and probate court in pursuing and defending claims arising from fraud and breach of fiduciary duty by former chief executive and trusted confidant
- Advising clients regarding rights and remedies against health insurance companies arising under the Texas Insurance Code
- Defending employer and new employee in lawsuit involving alleged breach of covenant not to compete arising from new employee’s employment in Mexico
- Defending mezzanine lender to oil and gas joint development agreement participant in state and federal bankruptcy court against claims of conspiracy and tortious interference arising from the demise of the underlying JDA
- Representing Government, ministry, and state-owned corporation of Central Asian country in two international arbitrations arising from joint venture agreements for the development of oil and gas fields, as well as in vacatur and recognition and enforcement proceedings
- Pursuing and defending against claims in California state court and in ad hoc international arbitration arising from the violation of a gas supply agreement entered as part of the purchase and sale of a fertilizer plant in Alaska
- Defending municipality against claims arising from the alleged breach of option agreements covering 250 MWH of electricity during extreme price spike
- Defending chemical company against claim of gas supplier for amounts allegedly owed under a gas supply contract
- Representing neighboring landowner against a deep waste injection well operator in case alleging negligence, nuisance, and trespass and seeking damages and a permanent injunction
- Defending major auto manufacturer in case alleging environmental contamination at dealership
- Representing apartment complex owner against general contractor and others for the defective design and construction of 17 building apartment complex
- Defending chemical manufacturer in case brought by premises invitee exposed to a diketene release
- Representing foreign bank in three opt-out securities fraud cases arising from the collapse of Enron
- Defending major auto maker and auto financer in US$60+ million case brought by bankrupt dealer alleging conspiracy and intentional harm
- Representing major auto maker in state and federal court and before the Texas Motor Vehicle Commission in suit arising from the termination of a dealer accused of fraud. Case involved antitrust and RICO issues, among others
Hoover Kernell’s employment expertise includes:
- Drafting employment and termination agreement
- Wage and hour audits
- Developing and implementing employment policies
- Providing advice and counsel in discipline and termination decisions
- Drafting, prosecuting and defending non-compete provisions
- Supporting employers in responding to discrimination claims
- Investigating allegations of misconduct