Biography
George has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil trials, litigation, and related appeals and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in business litigation. His practice involves a broad range of matters with particular emphasis on complex civil litigation, including e-Commerce and technology matters, securities litigation, and the defense of professional liability claims involving attorneys, accountants, and officers and directors. Additionally, George handles a wide variety of business litigation matters and appeals. Some of these include intellectual property disputes, class actions, contract disputes, securities claims, employment claims, fraud, deceptive practices, insurance coverage, lender liability, RICO, and products liability matters.

Professional liability litigation

George devotes a substantial part of his practice to defending attorneys in professional liability matters and in loss prevention counseling and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in legal malpractice law. In a recent Texas Lawyer survey, Texas attorneys named George as one of a handful of "go to" trial lawyers in professional liability cases. For over 20 years, George has been engaged by local, regional, and national firms and their attorneys to defend them in professional liability matters, disqualification proceedings, disciplinary actions, and fee disputes. Such matters include claims alleging malpractice, conflicts of interest, conspiracy, RICO, fraud, deceptive practices, and breach of fiduciary duties in substantive areas including appellate practice, bankruptcy, copyrights, corporate transactions, criminal law, employment, environmental law, estate planning, financial services, franchising, intellectual property, patents and trademarks, personal injury law, real estate, securities, tax, trials, wills and trusts, and workers compensation. Matters tried range from a defense verdict following a six-week jury trial, to numerous cases won on summary judgment and sustained on appeal.

George also has represented national, regional, and local accounting firms defending against claims involving failed financial institutions, and claims brought by trustees, receivers, corporations, and individuals for alleged malpractice, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and securities law violations concerning audits, tax, and other services.

George was chair of the ABA Section of Litigation's Professional Liability Litigation Committee and is editor of the committee's Professional Liability Alert newsletter. The committee presents national programs and produces various printed and electronic publications.