Find Lawyers in Longview, Texas

For nearly three decades, Charles “Chad” Everingham IV has worked in both public service and private practice handling patent litigation and other intellectual property and commercial disputes. Serving as a magistrate judge from 2007 to 2011 in the Eastern District of Texas, one of the busiest patent litigation courts in the nation, Mr. Everingham conducted Markman proceedings and complex patent trials involving medical devices, recreational equipment, computer hardware and softwa...

Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Wesley Hill balances a successful practice in intellectual property and business litigation. With more than 25 trials to his credit, including over a dozen patent cases, Mr. Hill brings broad courtroom experience to every case he handles. Mr. Hill’s trial successes include significant plaintiff’s verdicts as well as no-liability findings for defense clients. Most recently, he obtained substantial damage...

Bruce Smith represents clients in cases involving auto accidents, business torts, breach of contract, commercial disputes, products liability, insurance claims, deceptive trade practices, will contests, nursing home liability, and federal tort claims. In 2016, he added mediation and arbitration to his practice. There are many lawyers who claim to be “trial lawyers,” but few of them truly have trial experience. Since 1986, Mr. Smith has tried more than 60 cases to verdict, includin...

Dan Sorey is a partner at Sorey & Gilliland LLP. A seasoned personal injury attorney, he is known for going the extra mile to serve his clients. Mr. Sorey brings a decade’s worth of experience as a law enforcement officer to his legal practice, which provides him a unique ability to deftly analyze accident reports and prepare and present compelling narratives for trial or during mediation. His experience, background and skills have allowed him to develop a proven track record of win...

Johnny Ward is the founder of Ward, Smith & Hill, PLLC, an East Texas law firm with offices in Longview and Tyler. Mr. Ward has selected more than 45 juries and has been actively involved as trial counsel in a variety of challenging legal issues. He is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished trial lawyers in East Texas During the past 20 plus years, Mr. Ward has successfully tried a wide variety of complex cases to verdict, including numerous cases involving claims of patent infr...

T. John "Judge" Ward served as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas for 12 years from September 24, 1999 until his retirement on October 1, 2011. During his 12-year tenure, Judge Ward presided over cases in the Marshall, Tyler, and Texarkana divisions and had one of the heaviest intellectual property dockets in the country. Judge Ward conducted over 150 jury trials, presided over hundreds of patent cases, including Hatch-Waxman cases, and held in excess of 150 clai...

Before joining Ward, Smith & Hill in 2016, Andrea Fair spent five years in Houston, where she practiced complex commercial litigation. There her practice focused on patent infringement, construction disputes, and insurance coverage and defense work. She has handled every stage of litigation, from taking and defending depositions, preparing pre-trial and post-trial briefings, and handling pre-trial and post-trial hearings, to trying cases to jury verdict or final arbitration award. Since t...