Scott R. Davis

Scott Davis focuses his practice on various state and federal civil matters at both the trial and appellate levels, including commercial litigation, energy litigation, eminent domain, and products liability.

• St. Mary's University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2007)
  • Order of the Barristers
  • External Advocacy Program (E.A.P.) Mock Trial Team
  • Associate Editor, Saint Mary’s Law Journal
  • Phi Delta Phi
• University of Texas Austin (B.B.A. in Marketing & Business Administration, 2004)

• Texas
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas

• Represented a producer and transporter of petroleum products in condemnation and ancillary proceedings in its construction of a common carrier natural gas liquids pipeline connecting facilities in Oklahoma with facilities located on the Texas gulf coast
• Represented a pipeline affiliate of one of the main international integrated energy companies in condemnation and ancillary proceedings relating to a project to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Texas gulf coast to interconnections with various intrastate and interstate natural gas pipelines
• Represented an electric power and natural gas transmission and distribution provider in injunction and easement enforcement action
• Represented owners and lessees of mineral interests in actions against surface owners to enforce property rights associated with dominant mineral estate, including the right to explore for minerals through the use of geophysical seismic survey
• Represented a family-owned corporation in construction contract dispute regarding expansion of existing corporate building
• Represented agents of major insurance companies against claims of misrepresentation and fraud

• Co-Author, “Premises Liability and Terrorism,” Terrorism Law Report, St. Mary’s School of Law Center for Terrorism Law (April 2009)
• Contributing Author, Evidence Law Update, Texas Association of Defense Counsel (Fall 2008)
• Contributing Author, “Copyrights, Part III: Related Rights: Moral Rights and Other Copyright related Claims,” Intellectual Property for the General Attorney, University of Houston Intellectual Property & Information Law Institute (August 2008)
• Contributing Author, Evidence Law Update, Texas Association of Defense Counsel (Spring 2007)

• Chambers of the Honorable Fred Biery, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Intern, 2005

• State Bar of Texas
• American Bar Association
• Houston Bar Association
• Texas Young Lawyers Association
• Houston Young Lawyers Association

• Research Assistant, “Pipelines and Eminent Domain in Texas,” CLE International, January 2008

• Veterans Legal Services Clinic
• Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program