McKool Smith specializes in high risk, high stakes litigation. With a staff of more than 80 attorneys, McKool Smith is among the largest law firms in Texas engaged exclusively in commercial litigation, representing corporations and individuals throughout the world.

For more information, please contact Gary Eden at 214.978.4000.

Recent matters include:

* Representing a Fortune 500 Company in eleven securities fraud class actions.
* Serving as lead counsel for a global data services corporation in connection with a multi-billion dollar licensing copyright and antitrust dispute.
* Defending an investment and leveraged buy-out firm in a $370 million suit involving a variety of corporate governance issues. The trial resulted in a take nothing verdict.
* Representing a multi-national manufacturer of microprocessors in patent litigation.
* Representing royalty owners in a class action suit against four major oil companies.
* Representing a wireless, mobile communications provider in a cellular technology patent infringement action against a Fortune 100 Company.
* Defending a long distance telephone service provider in a patent infringement case against a Fortune 100 Company.
* Representing a number of independent service operators in an antitrust class action against a Fortune 100 Company.
* Representing a multinational corporation in numerous international patent cases. At issue were the rights to develop the next generation of wireless technology for cellular communications.
* Representing a beneficiary against the trustee of a billion-dollar family trust.
* Representing a small company and its officers in a suit against a Fortune 100 Company for misappropriation of trade secrets. The jury found in favor of our client.
* Representing an independent oil company in a suit against a New York Stock Exchange company for monopolizing the processing of natural gas in Panola County, Texas. In a binding arbitration award the arbitrator ruled in favor of our client.
* Representing an international accounting and consulting firm in an arbitration regarding a custom software system that allegedly failed to meet the plaintiff's specifications. The arbitration panel rendered a binding take-nothing decision in favor of our client.