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R. PAUL YETTER
In twenty-five years as a trial lawyer, Mr. Yetter has succeeded in a varied and challenging practice. He has defended and prosecuted cases in courts around the country, including in Texas, New York, California, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, and Nevada, as well as appeals in the Fifth, Eleventh, and Third Circuits and several state appellate courts. He has represented clients in a wide spectrum of industries, including the energy, airline, mining, entertainment (cable, video, and television), banking, utility, and financial services industries. He has handled all types of commercial litigation, including securities, antitrust, IP, business torts, contract, and injury/death suits. He specializes in business and technology litigation and arbitration. In recent years, Mr. Yetter successfully tried a complex construction case in Nevada, which resulted in the largest actual damages verdict, judgment, and settlement ($116 million) in state history; headed a special investigation into alleged insider trading and mismanagement by former executives of a prominent California software firm, which culminated in litigation recovering a substantial sum for injured shareholders; won a complete dismissal of an arbitration over a failed power plant project in the U.K.; tried the first major "cyber-trespass" case in Texas, securing an injunction protecting an airline's website and key ticket distribution strategies; defended a privately-held savings bank against a national insurer's aggressive trademark policing efforts; and secured a favorable split of partnership assets only weeks after being hired in ongoing litigation between two European businessmen. He has remained active in professional organizations. He currently is the Chair of the Alliance for Judicial Funding Inc., a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that assists the legislative efforts of the Texas state judiciary; a Trustee of the Texas Judicial Foundation, which funds state judicial education programs; a member of the S.D. Tex. Committee on Admissions; and a member of the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors. In the past, he has served as Chair of the State Judiciary Relations Committee, for which service he received the Bar's Presidential Citation award; and as a member of the Funding Parity Task Force of the Texas Commission on Judicial Efficiency, formed by the legislature to study the adequacy of state court resources. He has written or lectured on a number of legal topics, including big document cases, deposition strategies, forum selection, plaintiff litigation, and tortious interference and evidence law. Mr. Yetter is a member of the State Bar of Texas and is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Texas. He has been board certified in Civil Trial Law since 1990 and was certified for a decade in Personal Injury Trial Law. He and his wife Patti have seven sons. Click here for Mr. Yetter's full resume.
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