Hagan, John L.

Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Lawyer Overview

John Hagan is a commercial trial lawyer with a broad-based and diverse litigation practice in state and federal trial and appellate courts and before arbitration panels in Texas and throughout the United States. He has first-chair trial court experience in state and federal courts. He also has appellate experience gained through briefing and arguing before the Fifth Circuit, the Texas Supreme Court, and the Texas courts of appeals.

During the past 16 years John has represented and counseled clients in litigation matters involving business and contract disputes, fraud and deceptive trade practices, defamation and business disparagement, trade secret and trademark infringement, employment and civil rights, product liability claims, wrongful death and serious personal injury cases, toxic tort, bankruptcy, pipeline regulatory matters, arbitration, and large contractual indemnity and insurance coverage disputes. His practice primarily involves assisting clients in the oil, natural gas, and oil field services industries. His personal injury, property damage, and product liability litigation experience includes extensive responsibility in cases arising out of oil and gas exploration, production, and refining activities that have involved oil well blowouts, fires, and explosions. He has focused in recent years on representing general contractors and policyholders in complex contractual indemnity and insurance coverage disputes arising out of work orders and master service agreements. He has presented training to his clients on how to recognize and manage contractual and insurance risk transfer opportunities. Representative clients include Union Pacific Railroad, BP, Halliburton, Crown Central Petroleum, Unocal, and Hanson America.

John is a member of the State Bar of Texas and is admitted to practice before all federal courts in Texas as well as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has also appeared before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. John is a member of the American, Texas, and Houston Bar Associations as well as a Fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Energy
• Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation

Representative Cases

• ATOFINA prosecutes claim for coverage as additional insured for wrongful death settlement , (2009)
• BP appears in regulatory proceeding concerning Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) Quality Bank
• Crown Central defends claims arising from gasoline terminal fire and explosion
• Crown Central Petroleum prevails in federal jury trial involving claim for coverage as an additional insured
• Georgia-Pacific wins complete defense verdict in federal trial against defamation and age discrimination claims
• Halliburton's KBR division successfully pursues negligence claims against insurance broker
• Houston Bar Association's call-in clinic, LegalLines renders legal advice , (2004)
• La Gloria Oil & Gas wins appeal against contractor for contractual indemnity arising out of settlement of wrongful death claim
• NL Shaffer exonerated after Scotland investigation of North Sea oil well accident
• Oil field services company wins two defense jury verdicts in state court cases involving Kuwait firefighter compensation after first Gulf War
• Union Pacific Railroad considers contractual indemnity and insurance coverage after January 2004 Harris County Metro incident
• Union Pacific Railroad obtains injunction prohibiting music video broadcast on Lanham Act grounds
• Unocal involved in breach of a gas exchange agreement arbitration , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• Texas

Education

• U of Houston - Houston (Main)
• U of Texas - Austin

Published Works

• Darden v. Wainwright: Prosecutorial Misconduct in Closing Argument -- The Guilty Need Not Complain, comment, Houston Law Review (1988), 1988

Address

717 Texas
Suite 3300
Houston, TX 77002-2712

Phones

1.832.239.3713 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.832.239.3600 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com