- Business Litigation
- Catastrophic Litigation
- Insurance Coverage Litigation
- Energy & Natural Resources
Transactions and Litigation -
- Contract Disputes
- Landlord/Tenant Disputes
- Subrogation Litigation
- Private Equity
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty
The De Leon Law Firm represents both plaintiffs and defendants in business litigation. We understand that most businesses are adverse to pursue litigation and thus seeking out an attorney to handle any potential dispute is a large first step.
At the De Leon Law Firm, we approach business litigation from a business man’s perspective. We understand that every dollar spent on litigation is another dollar you could have invested back into your business. Thus, we attempt to reach an acceptable resolution for our clients from the very beginning.
Unfortunately some disputes cannot be resolved quickly. At the De Leon Law Firm we will never encourage our clients to accept an unsatisfactory resolution. We steadfastly pursue all of our clients’ claims. The attorneys at the De Leon Law Firm have extensive experience navigating business disputes through mediation, arbitration and litigation.
- Wrongful Death
- Construction Accidents
- Explosions
- Trucking Accidents
- Offshore Accidents
- Electrocution
- Falls
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Brain Damage
The De Leon Law Firm represents individuals suffering from catastrophic injury or death following an accident. Personal injury cases that involve catastrophic injuries are complex and require a seasoned attorney.
The immediate impact and long-term consequences of an accident causing paralysis or catastrophic injuries to the brain affects not only the victim, but also the family members.
The attorneys at the De Leon Law Firm know the ins and outs of how to build cases against injured clients. We are currently handling catastrophic explosion cases in Texas and Mississippi.
- Coverage Opinions
- Coverage Litigation
- Coverage Expert Services
The De Leon Law Firm represents small businesses and large corporations against their insurance companies when their insurance companies refuse to honor the policies they sold to them. Often times businesses are faced with litigation or a covered loss and their insurance company refuses to cover the costs for which your business purchased insurance coverage for.
At the De Leon Law Firm we hold insurance companies accountable to their policy holders and make sure you receive the benefit of the policy you purchased. This includes pursing bad faith claims, filing and pursuing declaratory judgment actions, litigating denial of coverage issues, litigating denial of indemnification issues and litigating errors and omissions claims against brokers and agents.
We also assist law firms whose clients are faced with duty-to-defend and duty-to-indemnify issues against their insurance companies. Jacob De Leon has served as a consulting expert and testifying expert on many complex coverage issues for law firms and their clients across the United States.
Mineral Interests Litigation
The De Leon Law Firm represents oil and gas landowners, mineral owners, producers, processors, and pipeline companies in litigation. We represent both sides in disputes involving operations of oil and gas wells.
In addition we take on litigation involving the obligation to develop leases and protect against drainage, claims of environmental and other damage to the surface or groundwater, disputes over joint accounting procedures, drilling disputes, claims arising under gas processing and gas balancing agreements, and rights to seismic and other geologic data.
Further, we take on matters involving the right to possess mineral interests and valuation of those interests.
The lawsuits we have handled have given us substantial experience with issues arising from oil and gas development in many parts of the world.
Capital Investment in Energy Operations
The De Leon Law Firm assists clients around the globe finance, purchase, restructure, develop and sell energy and natural resource assets. Because we have attorneys with finance backgrounds we have a perspective that benefits capital investors and borrowers alike.
We have the ability to structure deals across the full spectrum of energy and natural resource platforms; from exploration and production all the way to the consumer. We can structure deals with downstream, midstream and upstream business entities; including master limited partnerships.
