In February 2013, Mikal Watts flew to Miami Beach to attend an American Association for Justice convention. At the meeting, Watts could bask in the Florida sun among the throngs of trial lawyers attending the annual gathering. In two weeks’ time, he expected to appear in the courtroom leading a legal team opposing BP at a federal civil trial set to determine the energy company’s liabilities for the 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill.
“It was the biggest trial in the country,” Watts recalled recently during an interview at his law firm Watts Guerra, which is located steps away from one of the swankiest golf courses in San Antonio.
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