Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Jim Teater has a broad trial practice involving commercial, oil and gas, trade secret, product liability, regulatory, shareholder, antitrust, and other actions. He has extensive experience with cross-border disputes, multidistrict litigation, scientific experts, arbitrations, and trials in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies.

Examples of Jim's major cases include an FTC action to enjoin a merger of refining and marketing companies; litigation over oil and gas rights at Prudhoe Bay; tort and contract claims involving oil production in Nigeria; an injunction action to enforce a major chemical supply contract; shareholder actions challenging the valuation of worldwide oil reserves; an inventory dispute on a major oil pipeline; the environmental permitting of a major petrochemical complex in Texas; attorney general lawsuits against electric utilities concerning global warming; a nationwide class action challenging the safety of air bags; environmental enforcement actions against automotive assembly plants; a contract suit over the design of hydroelectric facilities; municipal and neighborhood suits alleging groundwater contamination in Hawaii; patent and trade secret rights to a major agricultural product; municipal public nuisance suits against the gun industry; and defense of thousands of toxic tort claims brought in the U.S. and several other countries.

Before law school, Jim worked as an engineer at a petrochemical complex in the Houston area. He heads the Houston Office Trial Practice.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• International Litigation & Arbitration
• Construction
• Environmental, Health & Safety
• Energy
• Energy Dispute Resolution
• Latin America

Representative Cases

• Occidental Chemical Corporation v. Equistar Chemicals LP , (2009)
• Comer v. Murphy Oil, USA, et al., C.A. No. 1;05 CV436-LTS-RHN (S.D. Miss.)
• Connecticut v. AEP and Open Space Institute v. AEP (SDNY)
• Air Bag Safety
• Automotive Products Cases
• DBCP Litigation
• Global Warming (S.D. N.Y.)
• Gun Distribution
• Hawaii Residents Exposure
• Hydroelectric Facility Design
• Intellectual Property
• Merger Dispute
• NGL Ownership
• Nigeria Production
• Offshore Production
• Oil Pipeline Disputes
• Paint Shop Emissions
• Petrochemical Plant Permit
• Public Water Supply
• Refinery Cases
• Shareholder Cases
• Tender Offer
• Western Refining Merger , (2007)

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Class Actions, Clean Air Practice, Cleanup & Superfund, Complex Litigation, Environmental Law, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Hazardous Waste, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Permits, Regulatory Compliance & Auditing, Solid Waste, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Water Pollution, Wetlands & Wild Lands

Bar Admissions

• Texas

Education

• U of Virginia- C'ville (Main)

Published Works

• PFOA Litigation: More to Come? Also printed in Mealey’s Emerging Toxic Torts, May 5, 2006, 2006

Address

717 Texas
Suite 3300
Houston, TX 77002-2712

Phones

1.832.239.3777 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.832.239.3600 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com