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Michael P. Cash
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MICHAEL P. CASH

Shareholder

,
Houston
T  713.651.2839
M  713.202.8309
mcash@liskow.com
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Practices

  • Litigation
  • Toxic Tort, Mass Torts & Class Actions
  • Contract and Quasi-Contract Disputes
  • Labor & Employment
  • Unfair Trade Practices and Business Torts
  • Expropriation/Eminent Domain
  • Land Loss Litigation
  • Legacy/Oilfield Contamination Litigation
  • Personal Injury
  • Refinery Incidents & Litigation
  • Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
  • Director & Officer Liability
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Energy – Litigation
  • Pipeline Litigation
  • Blowouts and Well Control Issues
  • Pipeline Servitude, Rights-of-way, Easements & Expropriation
  • Landowner & Mineral Lessee Disputes
  • Royalty Litigation

Blogs

  • The Energy Law Blog - Michael Cash

Assistant

Shantrise Hall

713.651.2822

“The thing I do best is tell compelling stories to 12 people at a time. Sometimes my job is to take a complicated legal and factual scenario and boil it down to one or two sentences that will catch the jury’s attention. For example, “breach of contract” cases are presented as “broken promise” cases because everyone on my jury will have experienced a broken promise. My job is to make my client’s position relatable to 12 strangers.”

Overview

Michael Cash is, first and foremost, a trial lawyer. Sought after and respected nationally for nearly 40 years, he helps primarily large corporate clients in high-stakes litigation. Those cases include, but are not limited to:

  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Complex Commercial Litigation
  • Mass Torts and Class Actions
  • Land Contamination Cases
  • Environmental Matters
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Toxic Torts
  • Catastrophic Injuries
  • Employment Matters

Michael has tried just about every kind of case that goes to a jury. He has also represented governmental agencies and officials, and has argued before numerous appellate courts throughout the U.S., including the Texas and Louisiana Supreme Courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Relationships with bench and bar are crucial to Michael. As he describes it, “I believe that it is important to earn and to keep the respect of the plaintiffs’ bar and the judiciary. I work hard to do that. In order to gain that respect you have to be professional, honest, candid and respectful. I think those qualities are too rare in today’s practice. Practicing with that in mind tends to set you apart.”

Mike is not only respected by his peers, but has been recognized by them for his outstanding trial work, has been quoted in advocacy textbooks and has taught advocacy skills throughout the U.S. and Canada. He is a faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and has been consistently honored in numerous publications.

Talks about

#triallawyer #energylitigation #coastalandlandloss #commerciallitigation #energyindustry

Highlights

Client Comment

“Mike Cash is a tremendous attorney. He is very effective and a pleasure to work with in complex litigation matters.” Best Lawyers Client Comment

Involvement

Michael is a Faculty Member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy

Client Comment

“My experience with Mike Cash has been consistently exceptional.” – Todd Kissner, Exxon Mobil Corporation, 2023

Notable Experience

  • Lead counsel in coastal land loss cases for a major oil company.
  • Successfully tried multi-billion dollar land contamination case (one of the first) for a major oil company.

Michael has years of trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts throughout the United States, with particular emphasis in Texas and Louisiana. Below is a brief summary of a few of the many cases Michael has handled:

  • Successfully defended a major oil company in a well blowout case
  • Successfully defended major oil companies in multi-billion dollar environmental litigation
  • Successfully defended energy companies in the mass tort litigation involving alleged releases of toxic substances
  • Successfully defended businesses facing class action litigation, in a variety of settings
  • Successfully defended national companies in employment litigation brought by the EEOC and by individual plaintiffs in courts throughout the U.S.
  • Successfully defended energy companies, chemical companies and others in catastrophic injury and death cases
  • Successfully defended a Texas Governor’s Chief of Staff and Press Secretary, in defamation suits
  • Successfully defended a former Enron director in securities litigation
  • In addition to his work as a defense lawyer, Michael is unique in that he has also represented various corporate clients as plaintiffs in numerous cases throughout the U.S. in a variety of areas of law including legal malpractice, accounting malpractice, indemnity claims and others, and has represented individual Plaintiffs in catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims. Michael has assisted his business and individual Plaintiff clients, in recovering tens of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements.

“When an in-house corporate counsel hires me, a big part of my job is to keep them well-informed. My job is to be collaborative and focused on solutions…with an early, candid risk assessment and, above all, to make sure that there are no surprises. We become teammates.”

Involvement

Professional

  • National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Faculty
  • American Board of Trial Advocates
  • American Bar Association – Section of Litigation
  • State Bar of Texas
  • Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
  • Houston Bar Association
  • Houston Bar Foundation, Fellow
  • Louisiana State Bar Association
  • Litigation Counsel of America

Community

  • Michael believes that his support of various community charities and causes is a personal matter, best accomplished quietly.

Recognition

  • American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
  • Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, Houston, 2020
  • Best Lawyers in America, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, 2010-2023
  • Texas Super Lawyers, Civil Litigation Defense, Business Litigation, General Litigation, 2004-2015, 2017-2019
  • Recognized as one of Houston’s Top Lawyers, H Texas Magazine, in the area of Commercial Litigation

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Credentials

Education

  • Baylor University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1985)
    • Baylor Law Review, Editor and Contributing Author
    • International Order of Barristers; National Mock Trial Team, Member
  • University of Northern Colorado (B.A., 1982)

Bar Admissions

  • Texas, 1985
  • Louisiana, 2008

Publications

  • "It's Heating Up; United States Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Proper Jurisdiction for Climate-Change Lawsuit," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, January 20, 2021
  • "U.S. Climate Change Litigation: 2020 Update," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, January 15, 2020

After Hours

“What do I like to do for fun? Go to trial! But other than that, in what little spare time I have, I love to bird hunt, fish, and golf. But more than anything I love to spend time at the lake with my wife, kids and now grandkids. God and family keep you grounded.”

WHAT’S TRENDING WITH Michael

  • News
    03.01.23
    Liskow Attorney Michael Cash Admitted to American College of Trial Lawyers
    2 minute read
  • News
    08.18.22
    85 Liskow Lawyers Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings) 2023
    4 minute read
  • News
    08.19.21
    74 Lawyers Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2022 Edition
    3 minute read
  • News
    08.20.20
    Sixty-Two Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, BL Rankings, LLC, 2021 Edition
    3 minute read
  • News
    05.20.20
    Charles Wilmore Named Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America
    2 minute read
  • Insights
    01.15.20
    U.S. Climate Change Litigation: 2020 Update
    less than a minute
  • News
    09.03.19
    Four Liskow Lawyers Selected to 2019 Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
    less than a minute
  • News
    08.15.19
    Fifty-Seven Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, BL Rankings, LLC, 2020 Edition
    3 minute read
  • News
    09.17.18
    April L. Rolen-Ogden Named Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America
    2 minute read
  • News
    09.07.18
    Four Liskow Lawyers Selected to 2018 Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
    less than a minute
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