Practice Areas

Appellate Litigation

Preserving and enforcing clients’ rights in trial and appeals courts

Banking & Mortgage

Assisting clients with drafting mortgage documents & providing answers for banking compliance

Business & Commercial Litigation

Aggressively representing your interests, regardless of the size or complexity of your business litigation problem

Cannabis Law

Assisting cannabis businesses through the complicated legal hurdles of a rapidly changing legal landscape, including those related to risk management, intellectual property, and general litigation

Casualty & Bad Faith Defense

Litigating bad faith claims & catastrophic damages claims

Commercial Trucking

Handling all phases of commercial trucking & shipping issues

Construction Litigation

Helping with construction property defects, personal injury, business litigation, & products liability

Corporate Services

Providing legal services to privately and publicly held corporations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 Corporations

Criminal Defense

Handling State and Federal cases, from misdemeanors to felonies, and including DWI and DUI

Directors & Officers Liability

Representing professional liability insurers in complex, high-stakes claims

Employment Law

Counseling management on every aspect of the employment relationship

ERISA & Non-Subscription

McCathern is the largest provider of litigation defense services to non-subscribers in Texas.

Estate Planning

McCathern’s experienced estate planning attorneys can help make sure everyone and everything is protected when you are gone.

Family Law

McCathern Family Law attorneys handle all aspects of domestic litigation, including divorce, child custody, parenting time disputes, child support & more

Guardianship

Guardianships are court-created relationships where a guardian is given rights over another person or estate (a ward) for the ward’s benefit. Though usually created to better care for incapacitated adults, it sometimes it involves children.

Health Care

Providing comprehensive legal services to medical professionals and effective solutions for complex health care needs

Insurance Litigation

McCathern represents insurance companies and their insureds in first- and third-party casualty defense, large loss property subrogation and recovery matters, products liability, & toxic tort matters

Intellectual Property

Litigating and protecting the rights to some of the most valuable trademarks, service marks, and copyrighted materials in America

Large Loss Subrogation

McCathern works with insurance companies and self-insured companies in large loss subrogation & recovery matters

Liquor Liability

McCathern defends dram shop and liquor liability claims against alcohol providers & their employees

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Untangling complex disputes when matters arise that necessitate adjudication of claims

Media & Entertainment

Representing clients on all transactional matters related to the financing, development, production, acquisition, licensing, distribution and other uses of creative content

Oil & Gas

Experienced in a vast range of legal services for the oil, gas, and energy industry

Personal Injury & Wrongful Death

McCathern represents clients on both sides of cases involving personal injury and wrongful death, whether caused by a premises defect, a defective product, a work related injury, or medical malpractice

Probate Law

McCathern’s probate team offers efficient and cost-effective legal assistance to help guide you through an already difficult time as quickly and painlessly as possible

Real Estate Litigation

Representing clients on all transactionalProsecuting & defending a variety of actions involving real estate on behalf of both individual and corporate clients in residential and commercial settings

Real Estate Transactions

Representing homebuilders & developers in the acquisition, development, & sale of real property, as well as matters of real estate finance, environmental issues and title questions

Restaurant & Hospitality

Providing invaluable advice for any investor, broker, or business that invests money, offers investments, or recommends investments

Wrongful Discharge

Counseling business leaders and litigating all aspects of employee contract & discharge matters

Securities Litigation

Providing invaluable advice for any investor, broker, or business that invests money, offers investments, or recommends investments