Daspit Law Firm

Overview

<p>The Daspit Law Firm is a plaintiff-side personal injury and commercial litigation practice founded in Houston in 2013 by John Daspit, a University of Houston Law Center graduate (J.D. 2004) who spent his first nine years in practice as an associate at Fulbright &amp; Jaworski, then among the largest law firms in the United States. Daspit built his civil trial skills defending corporate clients in high-value commercial disputes before reorienting his practice toward representing injured individuals and businesses asserting claims against institutional counterparties.</p><p>The firm is headquartered at 440 Louisiana Street in downtown Houston and has grown to more than fifty attorneys across offices in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. That multistate footprint tracks the industrial and transportation corridors where the firm's docket most frequently originates: offshore and onshore energy operations, chemical plant and refinery facilities, commercial trucking, and construction sites in jurisdictions governed by federal maritime law, the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, and the Jones Act.</p><p>John Daspit is admitted to the State Bar of Texas (since May 2005), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the Southern District of Texas, along with bars in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and Wisconsin. Early in his career at Fulbright &amp; Jaworski, Daspit devoted an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 hours to litigation arising from the 2005 BP Texas City Refinery explosion, which produced some of the most procedurally demanding mass-tort proceedings in the Southern District of Texas and established the firm founder's grounding in catastrophic industrial loss cases.</p><p>Among documented outcomes, the firm's attorney profile page reports a $20.2 million settlement&#8212;reached one week before trial&#8212;for an oil and gas company whose 455-mile pipeline was constructed with defective ERW pipe, a result corroborated by the Lexinter Law Directory. The firm attributes more than $500 million in aggregate client recoveries to its docket since 2013, as stated on daspitlaw.com. Partners Robert Morse, Jared W. Capps, Michael Grinsfelder, and Jesus A. Salinas work alongside founder Daspit on the litigation docket; Of Counsel Todd Shields and Dana G. Kirk provide additional trial and advisory depth. Past results in concluded matters are not indicative of outcomes in any future case.</p>

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