Clay White (Partner)
Intellectual property attorney, personal injury and toxic tort law
For more than 20 years, attorney Clay White has litigated thousands of cases in state and federal courts, including Texas intellectual property disputes, complex commercial law issues, and products liability cases involving chemicals, automobiles and other vehicles, and construction equipment.
He has extensive experience in the defense and trial of personal injury claims and other tort matters, and has litigated cases of patent infringement and trade secret theft.
The Texas Board of Legal Specialization has certified him as a specialist in personal injury trial law. He is a frequent and accredited speaker on personal injury, insurance litigation and toxic torts.
Areas of concentration
- Intellectual property rights, patent law, trade secret theft
- Toxic tort, mass tort and environmental litigation
- Product liability
- Complex commercial litigation
- Catastrophic industrial accidents
- Construction and premise defects
- Insurance litigation—first and third-party claims
Representative experience
- Lead counsel for one of the world’s leading boiler manufacturers in over 70,000 cases over the last decade
- Lead counsel for many national corporations in chemical and toxic tort litigation ranging from asbestos, silica, benzene and welding rods, to lead and latex
- Lead counsel for a national convenience store chain in dram shop death cases
- Lead counsel for a national corporation in eighteen-wheeler trailer product liability case involving death and serious bodily injury
- Lead counsel for regional fork lift distributor in fork lift roll over cases
- Lead counsel for many automobile dealerships in breach of contract, cash price violation and misrepresentation cases
- Lead counsel for regional property owners and mangers involved in premises liability cases including premises defect and security cases involving assault and murder
- Lead counsel for hundreds of insurance defense cases from automobile accidents to homeowner’s matters
Education
- Lamar University, BS 1982
- Lamar University, MS 1983
- South Texas College of Law, JD 1988
Admitted to Practice Law
- Texas
- Arkansas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Representative Clients
Zurich Insurance, Nationwide Insurance Co., ACE USA, The Hartford, St. Paul Travelers Group of Companies, Sentry Insurance A Mutual Company, Farmers Insurance Group, Amica Mutual Insurance, GEICO Insurance Co., Cavell USA, RPM, International, Bucyrus International, Inc., Kimberly Clark Corp., Waste Management, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Safeco Insurance Companies
Publications, Speeches and Presentations
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel - Winter Meeting (October 2001), Database Management in Complex Cases
- Mealey's Trial Tactics Seminar (May 2003), State of the Art and Other Defenses In Malignancy and Non-Malignancy Asbestos Cases
- Andrew's Seminars (Asbestos Update) (April 2004), Viability of the Chrysotile Defense, A Defense Perspective
- Mealey's Trial Tactics Seminar (February 2005), Defense Trial Tactics in Toxic Tort Cases
- Defense Research Institute, Complex Medicine Seminar (November 2008), How to Analyze and Challenge Long Term Care and Treatment Plans
Honors, Awards and Recognition
- Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
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