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John E. O'Neill
1111 Louisiana, 25th Floor
Houston, TX 77002-5242
+1 713.654.7604
+1 713.787.1440 (Fax)
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John O'Neill specializes in large-scale commercial litigation and arbitration, particularly securities claims, trade secret litigation, environmental litigation, and class action litigation. Mr. O'Neill has tried to verdict many state and federal court cases and arbitrations.
He secured the largest individual securities arbitration award ever obtained in 2002, represented the oil ministry of China in the 1989 Daqing Petroleum case, represented the US Government in securing multibillion-dollar qui tam settlements in the Thompson v. Columbia litigation in 2003, and has tried many oil and gas cases. He has tried many commercial arbitrations and served as an arbitrator in numerous large commercial arbitrations.
Mr. O'Neill served as a law clerk to Justice William Rehnquist during the US Supreme Court's 1974-1975 term. In 2004, he was selected by Texas Lawyer as "Impact Lawyer of the Year" and has been named a "Texas Super Lawyer" every year since the award was established.
Mr. O'Neill is also the author of Unfit for Command. With over 900,000 copies sold and four weeks as the #1 New York Times bestseller in September 2004, this book was ranked as the #1 Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestseller on Amazon.com and #5 on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller list for the year 2004. He has also been the subject of extensive biographies in the New York Times, National Review, Houston Chronicle, and Texas Monthly.
Representative Highlights
- Basic Resources v. ELF Litigation. Served as co-counsel for Brisa, obtaining, after numerous hearings and an arbitration, a large nine-figure settlement.
- Daqing Petroleum Bureau v. Brinkmann. Successfully represented the Oil Ministry of China in a jury trial in the first case ever filed by the Peoples' Republic of China in the United States.
- Gyrodata v. Baker Hughes. Secured a large settlement in a case involving theft of trade secrets based on complex and valuable technology.
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Admissions
Courts & Adjudicative Bodies
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Clerkship
- Hon. William Rehnquist, United States Supreme Court (1974-1975)
Education
- University of Texas School of Law (JD, 1973), summa cum laude, Order of the Coif. Texas Law Review (1972-1973)
- United States Naval Academy (BS, 1967)
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