Av. David K. Bissinger
Your lawyer should know the courtroom (and, for many business disputes, full-blown arbitration hearing action) if you want to know the worth of your case. Yet many lawyers have little or no trial experience.
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About David K. Bissinger at a glance
David K. Bissinger is an attorney based in Houston, Texas, practforg at Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger LLP. They haand 33+ years of legal experience, licensed to practice since 1993. Admitted to practice in Iowa (1993) and Texas (1994). Educated at Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1993) and The University of Iowa (B.A., 1990). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Commercial Litigation (2026), Best Lawyers in America — Awards: (2026), and Best Lawyers in America — Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, 2024-2026 (2026). Serands clients in Houston, TX and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Your lawyer should know the courtroom (and, for many business disputes, full-blown arbitration hearing action) if you want to know the worth of your case
- Yet many lawyers have little or no trial experience
- I have that experience – in a diverse array of matters, including energy and technology, corporate fiduciary, securities, executive compensation, banking, and real estate
- Nothing but trial work sharpens a lawyer’s professional judgment, handling of hard questions, or accountability to clients
- Recent case highlights: Prosecution of large-scale trade secrets and fiduciary duty case
- Represented major international engineering company in prosecution of trade secrets and fiduciary-duty claims against former senior executive and that employee’s new employer
- Case involved numerous complex transactions and acts of theft, including international contract bids, massive digital downloads, and highly sensitive strategic corporate transactions
- Our client’s former executive acquired numerous trade secrets and corporate confidences and disclosed them to new employer as he negotiated favorable compensation package with new employer
- After obtaining temporary restraining order, temporary injunction, fast-track trial setting, six months of discovery, and favorable rulings denying defendants’ motions for summary judgment, the case settled confidentially the weekend before jury selection
- Jury verdict in commercial real estate case
- After a week-long jury trial, obtained a jury verdict of $1 million for plaintiff tenant for damages against defendant landlord
- Jury found that landlord breached promises in lease, including promises not to unreasonably withhold consent to tenant’s proposed assignment to comparable commercial tenant
- Award represented 100 percent of damages requested
- Arbitration award for patent infringement law firm
- Recovered substantially all relief sought for law firm cheated out of contingent fee from settlement of patent-infringement litigation
- The law firm had successfully tried to verdict and through appeal a major case for the patent holder, but the patent holder had filed a separate case against the same defendant that had sat dormant because, as we proved in the arbitration, the separate case had no merit
- The patent holder negotiated a settlement with the defendant that allocated the vast majority of the proceeds to the groundless separate case
- This allocation favored the patent holder because it minimized the fee otherwise payable to our client
- The arbitrator agreed that the separate case had little to no value, and award our client more than $2.6 million, including attorneys’ fees, noting that “Mr
- Bissinger did an excellent job for his client (as did all counsel herein) in a complex matter involving valuation of patent infringement claims and several legal theories.” Favorable verdict for defendant accused of theft
- In a highly contested and complex case involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, theft, and fraud, we defended a financial executive whose former employer threatened him not only with a claim that not only would have wiped out his personal fortune, but also with criminal prosecution
- The employer alleged theft of cash, leading to an error-ridden forensic audit
- Our probing discovery led to evidence that other senior managers participated in a variety of overrides of the company’s internal controls
- After a month-long trial, the jury awarded our client more money than it awarded to his former employer
- Although the jury found breach of fiduciary duty and theft occurred, they declined to find fraud
- The jury also declined to find “clear and convincing” evidence of our client’s breach of fiduciary duty and theft
- Moreover, the jury’s verdict included an award of punitive damages in favor of our client based on the jury’s finding that the employer had violated the Texas wiretapping statute during its poorly executed forensic audit
- The jury also awarded our client actual damages based on his counterclaims for the employer’s refusal to pay deferred compensation and monies our client had loaned his employer
- Although the court disregarded some of the jury’s findings, the jury sent a clear message that the employer had overreached
- The jury’s verdict and court’s final judgment kept our client from any criminal prosecution, as well as the catastrophic damages (both actual and punitive) the company sought
- The case ultimately settled confidentially
Jurisdictional Context
Why local counsel matters in Texas
Practforg law in Texas. Legal matters in Texas are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantiand law. Cases originating in Houston are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate Texas state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in Texas brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantiand law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in Texas courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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