From Courtroom to Cookoff: A&R Litigator Featured in Texas Super Lawyers Magazine

Texas Super Lawyers magazine published a feature on Adams & Reese Partner Staton Childers – “Readin’, Writin’, and Rodeo”. The article discusses Childers’ passions outside of his practice, which includes education, the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, and his love for barbecue.

Childers’ longtime involvement with the rodeo has let him combine all four loves. As a youth, Childers was active in Future Farmers of America and showed pigs at the rodeo. The scholarship led him to Texas A&M University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics, then worked as a purchasing agent at Blue Bell Creameries before pursuing his passion for law at the University of Houston Law Center.

“The HLSR (Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo) state FFA scholarship gave me, a young kid from New Braunfels who raised pigs and lambs, the opportunity to go to college,” says Childers.

After moving to Houston, he joined HLSR, “with the intent to help give others the same opportunity I was given.” Soon he was serving on the organization’s Legal Advisory Committee, which created a barbecue team for lawyers and judges, and his team, “Sharks R Us” competes annually in the HLSR World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest.

“Sharks R Us is dedicated to great barbecue, raising money for education, and having a great time with others in the Houston legal community,” says Childers. “For many, rodeo means great performers, bull riding, and fried Oreos, but for so many kids, it represents an opportunity to go to college.”

At Adams & Reese, Staton Childers is a trial lawyer who advises companies in the energy and construction industries throughout Texas and the Gulf Coast region. For more than 20 years, he has advised clients on construction contract/master service agreement, downhole property damage, transportation, condemnation/eminent domain, workers’ compensation and injury cases. He has tried more than 100 cases in administrative, bench and jury trials throughout Texas.

Childers has also counseled oilfield service contractors and other clients on a full range of matters, including accidents involving trucks, cranes, railroad, scaffolding, maintenance equipment, coiled tubing units, drilling rigs, workover rigs and other heavy commercial vehicles. He has handled complex contract, tort, insurance and property damage cases related to fracking, directional drilling, drilling tools, drilling fluids and well design.

In the Houston community, Childers serves on the Advisory Board for Bo’s Place, a nonprofit bereavement center offering free grief support services. He also serves as a board member for West University Little League, and he has served on the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Legal Advisory Committee since 2003.