From a boardroom battle that put the firm at the center of a major Texas oil- and-gas play, to an eight-figure award arising from a chain-reaction collision in Arizona, Watts Guerra Craft won two of the nation’s most significant verdicts in 2012.
"A lot of people say they litigate, but we’re in court a lot. We don’t pencil-whip people to death," said Mikal Watts, who founded the San Antonio-based firm in 2009 with colleagues Francisco Guerra IV and J. Hunter Craft. In June, the firm won a $162 million jury verdict for client Longview Energy Co. of Dallas, reportedly the largest oil-and-gas litigation related to the Eagle Ford Shale area in southern and eastern Texas. The attorneys persuaded jurors that two Longview directors abused their authority to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars.
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