The Texas Supreme Court, in December 16, 2011, reversed a lower court ruling in favor of Shell Oil Company et al, as Petitioners, in an interesting case where the plaintiff sued Shell Oil claiming that the oil company had underpaid on lease royalties using a scheme which was purposely designed to prevent the lessor, a trust of the Ross family, from discovering the underpayment until the statute of limitations had run out. The court, in essence, held that the lessor had had ample opportunity to discover and realize the error, and demand remedy. Read More...
Mark A Randolph
Mr. Randolph has been practicing law with the firm since 1994 and has been a shareholder with the firm since 2001. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Randolph was a bank/industry analyst, national lending officer and served on various merger and acquisition groups for Texas-based financial institutions.
In addition to having extensive experience in all aspects of commercial business litigation in state and federal courts and in all alternative dispute forums, Mr. Randolph understands the needs of businesses. He tries civil cases involving complex business disputes for a wide variety of clients. Mr. Randolph’s practice concentrates on fiduciary litigation, partnership disputes, contract disputes, telecommunication litigation, real property litigation and commercial construction litigation (representing owners, general contractors and subcontractors).
Mr. Randolph is a life fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and has served (throughout his career) on numerous legal, charitable, community and Church-related boards and committees. Mr. Randolph is married and has four children.

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