West Mermis and its general contractor client recently prevailed in a week-long virtual arbitration. In the end, the arbitrator awarded the general contractor, who happened to be the defendant, a monetary award after the arbitrator applied the prevailing party attorneys’ fee provision. It was a resounding victory for the [...]
San Diego, Texas – West Mermis, PLLC, a Houston-based law firm, secured a take-nothing defense verdict for its client, a national highway construction contractor, in South Texas. Plaintiffs’ counsel asked the jury to award $40 million to the decedent’s family. Following a two-week trial, the jury rendered a complete [...]
By Joshua W. Mermis and Justin W. Safady New courtroom technology requires the trial attorney to understand, now more than ever, the difference between “substantive evidence” and “demonstrative evidence.” On September 25, 2011, at an oil fracking well site in Atascosa County, Texas, just south of San Antonio, a [...]
Litigation boutique specializes in construction trial work HOUSTON – Construction and business litigation firm West Mermis, PLLC, has earned national recognition among the Best Law Firms in the country by U.S. News & World Report and The Best Lawyers in America. The firm was selected to the 2019 list of [...]
Name partners recognized for expertise in construction litigation HOUSTON – Lawrence J. West and Joshua W. Mermis, co-founders of the Houston-based litigation boutique West Mermis PLLC, have been named to the 2019 listing of The Best Lawyers in America for their work in construction litigation. Since its inception in 1983, Best [...]
AUSTIN – The Texas Bar College congratulates West Mermis PLLC attorney Joshua Mermis on his membership as a Fellow in the College of the State Bar of Texas. The Texas Bar College is an honorary society of lawyers who are among the best trained attorneys in Texas, having completed at least [...]
Arbitration ruling ends litigation involving hurricane damage to South Padre complex HOUSTON – A decade-long construction defect battle involving a South Padre Island, Texas, luxury condominium complex damaged during Hurricane Dolly has been resolved in a take-nothing defense win secured by attorneys of the West Mermis law firm for the general [...]
The Sapphire is a 32-story condominium complex on South Padre Island that suffered extensive damage when Hurricane Dolly came ashore in the summer of 2008. The Sapphire’s developer (“Developer”) filed suit against the Sapphire’s architect, general contractor G.T. Leach Builders, LLC (“G.T. Leach”), and subcontractors, alleging that the Sapphire was not [...]
Lawrence J. West and Joshua W. Mermis, name partners in the Houston-based litigation boutique West Mermis PLLC, have been recognized on the list of Texas Super Lawyers for the second consecutive year. Mr. West is honored in the highly competitive practice area of Civil Litigation. For more than 25 years he [...]
From a deposition in southern Germany to a jury trial in southern Texas, the attorneys of West Mermis went the extra mile to secure a defense win earlier this year. The case involved a fire and explosion in 2011 that destroyed seven fracking trucks and related equipment at a rural drilling [...]