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Arthur Almquist and Ernest "Butch" Boyd elected to Houston Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates
Arthur Almquist and Ernest "Butch" Boyd join M. C. Carrington, Patricia Chamblin, Sandra Clark and Roger McCabe as members of the Houston Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, 2006. The general purpose of the American Board of Trial Advocates is to foster improvement in the ethical and technical standards of practice in the field of advocacy - to the end that individual litigants may receive more effective representation and the general public be benefited by more efficient administration of justice consistent with time-tested and traditional principles of litigation.
Arthur R. Almquist, a shareholder the firm's Houston office, is Board Certified in Civil Trial and Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. His primary practice area is complex litigation, and he has tried and/or handled a wide variety of civil litigation including asbestos premises claims for several clients. Art is a national trial team member for one of those companies. He has also represented individual companies or joint defense groups in litigation arising out of the Parker Hannifan plant in McAllen, Texas; the Longhorn Army Ammunition plant in Marshall, Texas and the North Americas plant in Marshall, Texas.
Ernest "Butch" Boyd joined MehaffyWeber, P.C. upon his graduation from Texas Tech School of Law in 1992 and was elected shareholder in 1999. Butch's practice areas include complex commercial litigation, including securities matters, oil and gas disputes, patent and licensing disputes, representation of trustees in complex corporate fraud cases, and general business litigation on both sides of the docket. He has secured numerous multi-million dollar results for his clients and has argued successfully before the Texas Supreme Court. Butch has a national trial practice and he represents large corporate clients as state and regional trial counsel in complex mass tort litigation.
