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Boyce Reid Brown, Of Counsel

PRACTICE AREAS/NATURE OF PRACTICE

  • General Business and Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation arising out of:
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Securities or Financial Fraud
    • Accounting Malpractice and Failed Audits
    • Insurance Matters
  • Construction Litigation
  • Environmental Litigation
  • Appellate Law in Federal & State Courts

RECENT REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

  • After the sale of an insurance company, successfully defended against the purchaser’s attempts to compel a refund of $20 million of the purchase price.
  • In connection with the sale of a large apartment site, successfully resisted purchaser’s attempt to claim $500,000 in utility reimbursements
  • When a reinsurance company denied coverage, successfully obtained $400,000 settlement for school district client.
  • Successfully represented partner in contentious withdrawal from architectural firm.
  • Litigated business disputes arising out of major asset divorce case.
  • Represented major hotel developer in a million dollar dispute with terminated hotel management firm.
  • Represented major shareholders in dissolution of software firm.
  • Represented partner in the breakup of development partnership.
  • Over 40 published appellate opinions.

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

(Speeches, Seminars, Bar Activities, Organizations, etc;)

  • Texas State Bar Association
  • Hawaii State Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Speaker CLE seminars on Quiet Title Litigation (Hawaii)
  • Adjunct professor, environmental law, University of Hawaii Law School
  • Lecturer, Real Estate Law, University of Hawaii
  • Lecturer, Forms of Business Organization, University of Hawaii
  • Recipient of the Hawaii Bar Association JUSTICE AWARD. Annual award to the member of the bar who most contributed to advancing the cause of Justice in Hawaii. First recipient when award was established
  • Recipient of the WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS AWARD, a national award given no more than once a year to a single recipient for significant contributions to environmental preservation through litigation.
  • Recipient of the NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION AWARD for outstanding service to environmental preservation through litigation

EDUCATION

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. B.A. in International Studies 1966
    Phi Beta Kappa
  • Harvard Law School. J.D. - 1969
  • Boston University Law School, Morin School of Banking and Financial Law Studies. L.L.M. in Banking and Financial Law - 1995. First in class.
  • London School of Economics, advanced studies in financial litigation 1996-1998.

ADMISSIONS

  • State Bar/Supreme Court of Texas
  • State Bar/Supreme Court of Hawaii
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals First Circuit
  • U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims
  • U.S. Court of International Trade
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas