Jeffrey R. Parsons

Houston, TX
Partner

Jeff Parsons is a founding partner of Beirne, Maynard & Parsons. With more than thirty years of trial experience, he has first-chaired a broad array of civil trials, arbitrations and appeals throughout the United States. His work includes the first Superfund Site lawsuit tried in Texas; major class actions; banking, finance and securities litigation; major construction cases; complex insurance coverage disputes; energy industry cases, including refinery litigation; environmental and toxic tort lawsuits; fidelity and surety claims; intellectual property cases; fraud and civil RICO lawsuits; products liability claims; various defamation lawsuits; and, a myriad of wrongful death and bodily injury cases.

• Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, 1973, J.D.
  
• Hamilton College, 1969, B.A.

• Represented an international energy company in a lawsuit arising out of sale of its interest in a major U.S. pipeline
• Represented a refinery owner in a trial with international construction companies regarding a refinery in Qatar
• Represented an international energy company in a trial with a construction company regarding revamp work at the company's chemical refinery
• Represented an international design/build company in a lawsuit with a construction company regarding revamp work at a chemical refinery
• Represented a biotech company in multiple AAA arbitrations with international pharmaceutical companies over intellectual property claims, new drugs and collaborative agreements
• Represented an insurer in a fraud lawsuit involving the insured's alleged damages in settling various class actions
• Represented another major U.S. insurer in a complex coverage trial following the settlement of covered and uncovered claims
• Secured a judgment in Pinellas County, FL, for a Saudi investor suing on fraud and RICO counts
• Represented and secured indemnity for a national builder in the first Superfund Site case tried in Texas
• Represented an international automobile manufacturer against nationwide class action claims
• Represented an insurer in trials regarding its officer's defamatory remarks and the demise of a major firm
• Represented an international company against hundreds of death and injury claims arising out of the explosion of a Corpus Christi, TX grain elevator
• Represented miscellaneous defendants in numerous wrongful death and personal injury trials

• Texas
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, And Western Districts of Texas
• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd and 5th Circuits
• U.S. Supreme Court

• American Board of Trial Advocates
• State Bar of Texas
  • Director, 2002-2005
• International Association of Defense Counsel
• The Network of Trial Law Firms
  • Chair, 1993-1994
• Houston Bar Association
  • Section on Litigation
• American Bar Association
  • Section on Litigation
• Defense Research Institute
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel
• Member, American Bar Foundation
• Life Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation
• Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• College of the State Bar of Texas

Mr. Parsons has spoken at many continuing legal education seminars, regarding trial strategies and tactics and principles of jury management. His publications are numerous and available upon request

• Named a "Texas Super Lawyer," Texas Monthly magazine, for multiple consecutive years, and selected for the 2009 Texas Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition for Business Litigation