Adam Massey joined Adams and Reese in 2008 and is currently an Associate with the Litigation Practice Group in the firm’s Houston office. His work focuses primarily on complex commercial litigation and tort litigation.
His significant contributions include:
- Representing complex commercial litigation cases involving the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, fraud, computer fraud, breach of warranty, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference, exclusivity agreements and contract disputes.
- Employing successful pre-trial procedures that minimize the business disruption for clients and often lead to cost-effective resolution through settlements, summary judgment motions and mediations.
- Introducing and vigorously demonstrating the applicability of a novel legal theory to address an unsettled point of law, leading to the resolution of a commercial dispute at an 80 percent reduction of the amount originally demanded of his client.
- Serving as Adjunct Professor of Advocacy for South Texas College of Law, teaching law students the procedures and practices necessary to become successful oral advocates.
Prior to joining Adams and Reese, Adam worked as an independent petroleum landman. In this capacity, Adam gained substantial experience researching public records in the offices of county clerks and district clerks to determine mineral ownership, and negotiating trade terms with mineral owners that resulted in the acquisition of oil and gas leases covering in excess of 2,100 net mineral acres. He also satisfied numerous title requirements generated as a result of the due diligence conducted by El Paso Production Company in its early 2005 acquisition of GMT Energy Corporation. Ultimately, it was this experience analyzing legal documents and negotiating lease terms which led him to apply to law school.
Adam graduated magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law where he served on the South Texas Law Review and represented South Texas as a varsity member of its nationally renowned appellate advocacy program. He received American Jurisprudence awards for the highest grade in Corporate & White Collar Crime, Family Law, First Amendment, Insurance, Marital Property and Oil and Gas; was awarded the Dean’s Merit Scholarship; was named to the Order of Lytae and the Dean’s Honor List; and received the prestigious Shea Maloney Advocacy Award for his contributions to the South Texas appellate advocacy program.
During law school, Adam served as a law clerk for United States District Court Judge Sim Lake of the Southern District of Texas. Additionally, he was named 4
th Best Advocate at the 2008 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition in Chicago, Illinois, a competition which includes over 400 law students from across the nation.
In his free time, Adam enjoys football, hunting, fishing and travel.
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