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Practice Areas: Energy Law; Environmental Law; Energy Litigation; Civil Litigation/Trial Practice; Oil and Gas Litigation; Environmental Litigation; Toxic Tort and Property Damage Litigation; Business Litigation; Real Estate and Construction Litigation; Alternative Dispu

Additional Information:

Michael J. Mazzone is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law and has tried numerous jury and non-jury cases in both state and federal court.

He is licensed to practice in Texas, Massachusetts and North Dakota, as well as in all of the federal courts in Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court, and he has tried cases in Louisiana and New Mexico in addition to Texas.

Michael frequently represents energy companies in environmental contamination, indemnity, and toxic tort cases. He also represents parties in construction litigation and arbitration as well as real estate development disputes.

Michael is also an arbitrator and an advocate in arbitration matters. He has presided over numerous arbitration matters and, as a member of the American Arbitration Association's National Panel of Arbitrators, is regularly called on to preside over arbitrations.

Michael has given speeches and presented papers on trial advocacy, arbitration, and litigation at oil and gas industry conferences, bar association seminars, the Texas Environmental Superconference, and the University of Texas Law School. Michael has also been a speaker at the AAA's National and Regional Panel Retreats, seminars providing training to AAA arbitrators.

For five years, Michael taught in the trial advocacy program at the University of Houston Law School as an adjunct professor of law, and he has served on the Editorial Board of the Houston Lawyer magazine, a publication of the Houston Bar Association.

Michael was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration in 1977 from the University of South Carolina, and he attended graduate school at the University of Michigan. He obtained his law degree in 1983 from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.

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Firm Members: Michael Powell Sashe Dimitroff John Eldridge Mark Trachenberg