Luke Ellis, a partner at Marrs Ellis & Hodge, was recognized by Texas Super Lawyers as one of Texas’s top trial lawyers concentrating on eminent domain and condemnation (2017, 2016, and 2015). Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than...
Hurricane Harvey Flooding - Q&A on Inverse Condemnation Against Federal Government with Mark Lanier, the Lanier Law Firm, and Justin Hodge, Johns Marrs Ellis & Hodge LLP.
Luke Ellis interviewed on Fox News regarding condemnation of Texas property for border wall. You can watch the whole interview "Click HERE to play."
JMEH Partner Justin Hodge interviewed with reporter L.M. Sixel of the Houston Chronicle for a Q&A session on Texas Eminent Domain. He answered legal questions concerning TxDOT, pipeline, and powerline eminent domain cases. He also discussed the landowner...
JMEH's appellate win in November 2015, Burks v. XL Specialty Insurance Company, __ S.W.3d __ Tex. App.--Houston [14th. Dist.] 2015, no pet.), has been cited in Texas and in Utah in the past year in cases concerning Directors' and Officers' coverage. See Allstate...
Texas Super Lawyers has recognized three JMEH partners as "Super Lawyers" in their fields in its annual listing of top Texas attorneys. The Super Lawyers report, published by Thompson Reuters, is based on peer recognition and editorial research. View the attorneys and...
The University of Texas School of Law is offering the state's first law school course devoted solely to eminent domain law, and the University of Houston Law Center will be starting a similar course later this year. At UT, Austin-based attorneys Luke Ellis and Chris...
Anglo-Dutch Petroleum International told a Texas appellate court Thursday that a trial court wrongly awarded a “windfall” in interest on attorneys' fees to a lawyer who represented the company in its suit alleging two rivals is closed confidential information, after...
On Thursday, January 28 JMEH attorneys Joe Marrs and Leah Lanier spoke to Bank of Texas/BOK Financial about their paper, How Not to Invest a Trust: Pitfalls for Trustees and Brokers. The talk, which focused on the hazards of investing trust funds and avoiding common...
A Texas appeals court ruled Tuesday, September 15th, that the former CFO of Superior Offshore International Inc. can proceed with his claim that XL Specialty Insurance Co. wrongly refused to defend or indemnify him in underlying bankruptcy litigation, holding there...