David Mullican, Jr.
12307 Westmere Drive
Houston, Texas 77077
H: 281.497.0318
C: 713.320.7019
davmull@sbcglobal.net
EDUCATION:
University of Texas School of Law – Graduated May, 1983
Licensed:
Bar No.:
November, 1983
14651200
University of Houston:
Graduated magna cum laude – B.A., Political Science
Post-Baccalaureate studies:
University of Houston: mathematics; computer programming; computer science and digital logic.
University of Texas: mathematics and physics.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Dean Law Firm
Houston, Texas
Attorney
Litigation/Arbitration Experience:
· Arbitration of a medical imaging provider’s claims for services rendered and right to payment from insurer.
· Interstate trucking double fatality death claim.
· Texas Dram Shop Act death claim.
· Construction related electrical personal injury claim.
· MRI magnet coolant loss property damage claim.
· Stryker Corporation and Johnson & Johnson DePuy hip replacement class action claims.
· BP Deepwater Horizon class action appeals.
· Prepare cases for trial, arbitration, mediation or other settlement.
· Develop evidence through witness interviews, depositions, and other discovery.
· Perform necessary appellate services.
· Defend medical imaging client’s trademark and service mark rights from unfair competition and trademark
confusion from out-of-state entrant into client’s market area.
Solo Practice
Houston, Texas
Attorney
Litigation/Arbitration Experience:
· Analyze and advise lead attorney of legal and factual issues concerning the compliance and interpretation of
federal and state and federal laws, rules, regulations, and any other factual or legal issues to represent and counsel
clients.
· Review and draft contracts, conveyances and related documentation.
· Conduct investigations, perform research, and draft petitions, complaints, other pleadings, motions, briefs,
memoranda, orders, discovery and other documents.
· Advise software group regarding possible liability of proposed music sharing software project.
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May 2013 — March 2014; June 2015 —
March 2014 — June 2015
Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC
September 2008 — April 2013
Houston, Texas
Attorney
Godwin Pappas & Ronquillo
Houston, Texas
Attorney
Dunn, Kacal, Adams, Pappas & Law
June 2000 — March 2007
(Later, Kacal, Adams & Law)
Houston, Texas
Attorney
(Chris Pappas and others left DKAPL in 2004 to form the Houston office of Godwin Gruber. In 2008, Chris Pappas’ group
left Godwin Pappas & Ronquillo to join the Houston office of KRCL.)
Litigation/Arbitration Experience:
· Residential and commercial construction claims. (representing clients such as property owners, home owners'
associations, homebuilders, general contractors, subcontractors (electrical, HVAC, mechanical engineering,
concrete, plumbing, pool, deck, balcony, masonry, roofing and others), construction management companies,
equipment rental companies, material manufacturers and suppliers, property management companies, developers
(commercial, residential, retail and mixed use), foundation design engineers, equipment and building material
manufacturers; loan and security contracts; products liability; oil field equipment/drilling rig defects;
death/personal injury).
· Residential and construction loan and security claims.
· Automobile, commercial liability, homeowners’ and casualty insurance coverage claims.
· Products liability death, personal injury and property damage claims.
· Warranty claims regarding drilling rig performance defects.
· Negligence claims claiming death, personal injury and property damage.
· Commercial lease disputes.
· Real estate fraud, title and financing disputes.
· Architectural copyright disputes.
· Protection of non-party companies and company officers from lawsuit discovery.
· Defense of employment discrimination claims.
· ERISA benefit plans claims disputes.
· Partnership compensation, accountings and dissolutions disputes.
· Defend bank directors and officers from shareholders claims.
· Appellate/appellee practice in Texas Courts of Appeal and the Texas Supreme Court.
· Oil field equipment manufacturing and leasing contracts, drilling contracts; service contracts and class action
ratable-take claims.
· Toxic tort claims.
·
Transactional and Consulting:
· Partnership formation, modification, employment and dissolution contracts.
· Reformation and cancellation of deeds, security agreements and other real estate transactions.
· Estate and Real Estate Transactions:
· Counsel clients in estate planning.
· Wills.
· Family trusts.
· General and special powers of attorney.
· Durable powers of attorney, medical powers of attorney and directives to physicians.
· Probate of wills and codicils.
· Represent estate administrators and executors.
· Declarations of heirship.
· Partnership formation, modification, employment and dissolution contracts.
· Reformation and cancellation of deeds, security agreements and other real estate transactions
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March 2007 — August 2008
Ragan & Russell
May 1984 — May 2000
Houston, Texas
Attorney
Litigation:
· General commercial litigation.
· Home improvement contract disputes.
· Commercial lease review/disputes; real estate title/security.
· Residential and commercial construction contract disputes.
· Maritime insurance broker bad faith claim.
· Oil field equipment rental dispute.
· Personal injury.
· Partnership disputes, dissolutions and accountings.
· Employment contracts.
· Lender liability, including federal Anti-Tying Act.
· Health insurance coverage dispute contesting coverage denial for treatments deemed experimental or investigative.
· Landlord/tenant disputes.
· Appellate litigation in Texas Courts of Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court.
· Condemnation of real property.
· Title and boundary disputes.
· Recovery for damage to real property.
· Adverse possession litigation.
· Reformation and cancellation of deeds.
· Will contests.
Transactional and Consulting:
· Mineral leases.
· Pipeline right-of-way agreements.
· Mineral title opinions.
· Division orders.
· Surface and mineral conveyances.
· Surface use agreements.
· Equipment leasing.
· Estate planning.
· Wills, and family trusts.
· General and special powers of attorney.
· Statutory durable power of attorney, medical powers of attorney, directives to physicians and other estate planning
instruments.
· Estate administration; partition of real and personal property.
Chevron Services Co.
Houston, Texas
1979 –1980
Reservoir Simulation Technician: Developed reservoir models and ran production simulations to predict and plan drilling,
gathering and transmission needs for Aramco’s Khafji Reservoir in Saudi Arabia.
Chevron Geophysical Co.
1978 –1979
Houston, Texas
Seismic Processing Technician: Processed and formatted field data; assigned geometry to field data and produced
time/depth sections.
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ASSOCIATIONS:
Texas Bar Association
Houston Bar Association
Life Fellow – Texas Bar Foundation
JURISDICTIONS ADMITTED TO PRACTICE:
State of Texas
United States Federal Courts for the Southern District Of Texas
PUBLICATIONS:
Is Perjury Committed in a Deposition Punishable by Civil Contempt in Texas? The Texas Supreme Court Says
"NO." with Mike Logan, Zach Mayer and Alan Marks (December 2011).
Subrogation between CGL Carriers in Texas, with Michael Logan, Zach Mayer and Alan Marks (March 2010)
PERSONAL REFERENCES:
References provided upon request.
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