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Richard Mithoff Has Championed the Causes of Consumers, Workers

Health officials told residents near the San Jacinto waste pits to drink only bottled water for now.

The Austin judge overseeing pretrial matters in the Texas multidistrict air pollution litigation against Volkswagen has appointed Houston plaintiff’s lawyer Richard Mithoff  as lead counsel for the Texas Clean Air Act county plaintiff’s steering committee.

Richard Mithoff, the Houston trial lawyer who secured a $2.2 billion settlement in 1998 for Texas counties against tobacco companies, is now going up against Volkswagen Group of America and Audi of America in vehicle emissions litigation for Harris County.

County Retains Richard Mithoff to Help Litigate Case

ConocoPhillips Wants $63 million settlement reimbursed by Noble Energy HOUSTON — A state appeals court in Houston agreed Wednesday with ConocoPhillips that Noble Energy owes responsibility to indemnify, or reimburse, ConocoPhillips with respect to a $63 million settlement for an environmental claim for damage to an oil field in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Handling the case for ConocoPhillips was The Mithoff Law firm — Richard Mithoff, Sherie Beckman and Warner Hocker; from Baker-Botts Tom Phillips and Macey Stokes, Ben Geslison and Omar Alanz.

At a time of year when many people think about giving to others, a Harris County probate judge signed an agreed judgment on Nov. 24 in the estate of a Houston real estate developer that provides a total of $6.9 million to 19 non-profits, including several in Houston.

“For some of these charities, particularly the smaller ones, this is a very big deal,” said Houston lawyer Richard Mithoff, who represented most of the non-profits in The Estate of James M. Hill Jr.