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    Mithoff Law Attorneys included in Texas SuperLawyers 2014

    Three attorneys with Mithoff Law have been named to Thomson-Reuters 2014 edition of Texas SuperLawyers.

    Richard Mithoff – Texas SuperLawyers 2003 – 2014

    Top Ten in Texas         2003-2007, 2008-2013

    Top 100 in Texas         2003 – 2014

    Top 100 in Houston     2003 – 2014

    Joseph R. Alexander  Jr. – Texas SuperLawyers 2005 -2014

    Janie L. Jordan – Texas SuperLawyers 2012 – 2014

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    September 15, 2014

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    BP Investors Win Bid to Form Class in Oil Spill Lawsuit

    Some BP investors can form a class to sue the company over allegations it misled shareholders on how much oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, a federal judge ruled.

    PublicationFuelfix, Houston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    May 22, 2014

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    Investors Allege BP Overstated Safety Records

    Attorneys for BP investors told a federal judge that the British oil company misled the market for years on how safe its deep-water drilling operations were in the lead-up to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    April 29, 2014

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    Medical giants seal rift over money

    Texas Heart Institute drops its suit; Catholic Healthy ups deal

    The Texas Heart Institute will partner with the Catholic hospital chain that bought the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, ending a contractual dispute tied up in a Harris County district court since May.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    September 16, 2013

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    Pre-K group sues to get on ballot

    Opposition from county judge spurs nonprofit to head to court

    Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said he would not place a 1-cent property tax on the November ballot intended to buoy area preschools, prompting a lawsuit by a local nonprofit that supplied tens of thousands of signatures on a petition asking him to do so.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    August 27, 2013

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    Sale of St. Luke’s Faces Obstacle

    The Texas Heart Institute, the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System’s most valuate asset, is asking a Harris County court to declare it a free agent, a potentially huge wrinkle in the pending sale of the system to Catholic Health Initiatives.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Sherie Potts Beckman.

    Year

    May 16, 2013

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    BP Sued by Vantage for $265 Million Jump in Costs

    Vantage Drilling Co. sued a BP Plc unit over what it claims was a $265.5 million increase in financing costs stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

    PublicationBloomberg NEWS
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Warner V. Hocker.

    Result

    $265 Million

    Year

    April 8, 2013