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Dan Hedges was named by Texas Lawyer as one of the six “impact players” of the year 2001, along with several judges and a state senator. He is also listed as one of America's leading lawyers in general commercial litigation by Chambers USA. In 2006, Mr. Hedges was included as one of the 11 leading lawyers in Texas in the area of Business Crimes by Who's Who Legal - The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in Commercial Litigation since 2001, and has been selected as a “Texas Super Lawyer” in Business Litigation in surveys conducted by Texas Monthly since 2003. Texas Monthly surveys also named him as one of the top 100 lawyers in the City of Houston in 2003 and 2004. He is also featured in the 2008 and 2009 issues of Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition magazine in the area of Business Litigation. Mr. Hedges serves as the chairman of Senators Cornyn and Hutchison's Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee which screens prospective federal judges and U.S. Attorneys.
Mr. Hedges has over thirty years of representing government agencies, public corporations, private companies, and individuals in:
- bad faith litigation
- large commercial multi-party litigation
- mass tort class actions
- internal corporate and government investigations
- directors' and officers' liability
- employment litigation
- class action and shareholder derivative suits
- antitrust litigation
- qui tam litigation
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Hedges served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas from 1981-1985. While in the Justice Department, Mr. Hedges, Dan Webb, and Rudolph Giuliani co-founded the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. He was selected as the Most Outstanding Young Lawyer in Texas for 1982-1983.
Mr. Hedges' wife, Justice Adele Hedges, is Chief Justice of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals of Texas. Representative Experience
- Legal counsel for a purchaser of a foreclosed company from a bank who was then sued (along with the bank) by investors in the foreclosed company.
- Lead counsel for a major corporation which purchased certain assets of a company and was sued by a commissioned sales representative whose sales agreements it did not purchase.
- Lead counsel for an internal corporate investigation of a purchasing agent who set up a sham broker to make individual profits on his employer's sales.
- Lead counsel for an internal investigation of a state agency accused of improprieties in its bidding procedures.
- Local counsel in a multi-state, multi-spill Clean Water Act case by the EPA/Justice Department.
- Lead counsel in numerous multi-party asbestos cases.
- Lead counsel for an oil and gas company which sued another oil and gas company for failure to drill a well.
- Lead counsel in two antitrust cases relating to the deregulated Texas power markets.
- Expert witness on attorneys' fees in proceedings before the Public Utilities Commission of Texas.
Professional / Civic Affiliations
- Martindale Hubbell AV Rated Attorney
- Sustaining life fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation and Texas Bar Foundation
- Served as a director of the Houston Bar Foundation
- Board Member of the YMCA of Downtown Houston
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