Beirne, Martin D.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Martin Beirne is a founding partner of Beirne, Maynard, & Parsons. He has extensive trial experience in complex business litigation, intellectual property, energy, products liability, automotive litigation, and antitrust. Mr. Beirne also provides advice and representation to corporations, corporate officials, and other individuals in investigations initiated by various government authorities as well as internal investigations on behalf of corporations. Corporate Legal Times has named Mr. Beirne a “Top Drawer Litigator” on its list of “go to” lawyers in the U.S.

Areas of Practice

• Administrative
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (Adr)
• Chemicals
• Commercial Litigation
• Condemnation / Eminent Domain
• Electronic Discovery
• Energy Litigation
• Franchise and Distribution
• International
• Investigations
• Securities Arbitration and Litigation
• Technology Litigation
• Transportation / Motor Vehicles
• Antitrust

West Practice Categories

Administrative, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business & Commercial, Eminent Domain, Energy, Franchising, Government Agencies & Programs, International Law, Litigation & Appeals, Science & Technology, Securities, Transportation

Bar Admissions

• Texas
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Associations and Memberships

• State Bar of Texas (Member)
• Houston Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• American Law Institute (Member)
• Defense Research Institute (Member)
• Institute for Transnational Arbitration (Member)
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel (Member)
• Environmental Law Institute Associates Program (Member)
• American Bar Foundation (Fellow)
• Texas Bar Foundation (Board Trustee, Director, Fellow)
• Houston Bar Foundation, 2005 - 2008 (Director)
• St. Mary's University Board of Trustees (Board Member)
• St. Mary’s Law Alumni Association (Director)
• University of Houston Law Review (Director)
• University of Houston Law Foundation (Advisory Director)
• International Lawyers Network (Board of Advisors)
• Texas Access to Justice Commission (Commissioner)
• Greater Houston Partnership, Business Issues and Environment Committees
• Uptown Houston Association (Member)

Honors and Awards

• St. Mary's Law School Distinguished Law Graduate
• One of Three "Top Drawer Litigators" in the U.S., Corporate Legal Times
• Named a "Leader in Texas" by Chambers USA, 2008

Classes and Seminars

• Serves as faculty member for the Beecher Carlson TopBoardsTM program, ISS-accredited training for corporate board members

Past Employment Positions

• U.S. Army, Captain, 1969 - 1971

Education

• St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, 1969
  J.D.
  Honors: With Honors
  Law Journal: St. Mary's Law Journal, Editor-In-Chief, 1968 - 1969
• Springhill College, 1966
  B.S.

Published Works

• Co-author, “Climate Change and the Law", Energy Magazine, Fall, 2007
• Co-author, "'And They're Off!': How Federal Courts are Implementing the December 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Allocating Burdens and Costs and Access to Opponents' Systems and Equipment in Electronic Information Discovery," Edited version published as "How the courts are applying new rules", National Law Journal, March 19, 2007
• Co-author, "New Rule Could Shake Up E-Discovery", Executive Counsel, January-February, 2007
• Co-author, "The Illusory Safe Harbor of Rule 37(F)", American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, December, 2006
• Co-author, "Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(2)(B) and The 2006 Amendments: How the Federal Courts Will Implement Two-Tier Discovery of Electronic Information", Andrews Litigation Reporter, November, 2006
• Co-author, "Technology on Trial: Put on Your Parachute", Law Technology News, November, 2006
• Co-author, "The Fear of Alternative Fees", GC News (Texas General Counsel Forum), May, 2006
• Co-author, "Electronic Information - A Trap for the Unwary in Business Litigation", Houston Business Journal - Business Survival Guide, April, 2006
• Co-author, "Controlling the Cost of E-Discovery Through Preparation and an Organized Response", American Lawyer, Supplement, December, 2005
• Co-author, "The Art of War and Public Relations: Strategies for Successful Litigation PR", Houston Business Journal, Business Survival Guide, April, 2006
• Co-author, "Exploration in Disputed Territories", Corporate Counsel, October, 2004
• Co-author, "The High Price of Drug Politics", The European Lawyer, October, 2004
• Co-author, "Judicial Control Over Questionable Jury Verdicts", The Federal Lawyer, June, 2004
• Co-author of Articles, Journal of Legal Economics
• Co-author of Articles, For the Defense
• Co-author of Articles, West Legal Publications
• Texas Business Litigation Forms\FAST, (Co-Author), West, 1993
• Texas Business Litigation Express Forms, West, 1993

Address

1300 Post Oak Boulevard
Suite 2500
Houston, TX 77056

Phones

(713) 960-7301

Faxes

(713) 960-1527

Emails

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Websites

http://www.bmpllp.com