Morgan Copeland
Trial Lawyer in Business, Energy, Environmental/Toxic Tort, Construction, & Products Liability/Complex Tort Litigation
- Role
- Partner at Copeland & Rice Llp
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Partner
Jan 2014 — Present
Board-Certified Trial Attorney and Co-Founding PartnerCopeland & Rice LLP (fka Schick & Copeland)2014-Present/Houston, Texas> Ranked among the best trial lawyers in the country by The Best Lawyers in America® for commercial litigation, mass tort/class actions, and personal injury litigation since 2007; for environmental litigation 20••••20; and for intellectual property litigation 20••••20. Also named to Texas Super Lawyers, 20••••20;> Business and commercial disputes (representing plaintiffs as well as defendants); Energy industry litigation, including midstream disputes and upstream oil and gas cases; Environmental and toxic tort matters, whether brought as class actions or by thousands of individual claimants joined in many suits pending in multiple venues; Catastrophic event litigation, including pipeline explosions and industrial releases resulting in environmental damage, property damage, and/or personal injury; Products liability litigation; Serious personal injury and death cases; Construction litigation; Patent infringement litigation (as trial counsel to Intellectual Property specialists).Partner-Complex Commercial Litigation SectionVinson & Elkins LLPSeptember 1981 – January 2014 (33 years) Houston, Texas> Admitted to the firm partnership in 1989> First-chaired many cases to jury verdicts, including a complete defense verdict after a three-month trial of personal injury and property damage claims arising from the rupture of petroleum pipelines in historic flooding of the San Jacinto River.> Represented sophisticated clients in serious litigation covering diverse and wide-ranging subject matters.
Education
University of Texas School of Law
J.D. with honors
University of Texas
B.B.A. Petroleum Land Management with honors
Skills
- Civil Litigation
- Appeals
- Trial Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- Trials
- Torts
- Breach of Contract
- Intellectual Property
- Toxic Tort
- Legal Research
- Arbitration
- Litigation
- Class Actions
- Product Liability
- Trade Secrets
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