Welcome to Texas: home of big trials, huge damages and larger-than-life litigators for the past 25 years.
For an example of all three, look no further than Joe Jamail’s stunning 1985 victory in Pennzoil v. Texaco , at the time the largest verdict in U.S. history . In that suit, Jamail convinced a Harris County jury that Texaco knowingly interfered with his client Pennzoil’s attempt to purchase Getty Oil. Jurors hit Texaco with a $10.5 billion verdict — $3 billion in punitive damages plus $7.53 billion in other damages.
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