Will Hailey

Experience

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  Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

  Jan 2011 - Aug 2017

  Attorney

  Acted as in-house litigation counsel for a year on secondment with a large, independent exploration & production company, overseeing over 100 pre-litigation and litigation disputes, requiring successful communication with internal clients and outside counsel and negotiation with counter-parties' in-house and outside counselLed the briefing on a major Daubert motion, resulting in the exclusion of landowner plaintiffs' contamination expert's opinions from trialLed a document-discovery team, including two Firm colleagues and ten contract attorneys, from initial document collection, through document review and confidentiality designation, to final production of over 350,000 pages of documents, many of which are business-sensitiveDeveloped, as member of the trial team, an entire lawsuit strategy from case inception to courthouse steps, including deposing opposing parties' key witnesses, handling document discovery, and preparing dispositive-motion and discovery-motion filings for the courtCrafted, for dispositive-motion filings before the court, the presentation of key case facts for educating the judge and presenting the clients' positions in the best light in several multi-million-dollar lawsuitsAssisted, as member of the trial team, the entire preparation and presentation of the client's case in confidential arbitration over oil-and-gas interests in TexasRepresented two major independent energy companies in defending contract claims for alleged breaches of a purchase and sale agreementRepresented clients in resisting a government inverse condemnation of private landInvestigated a multi-national company's subsidiary operations in North America and Africa for compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Show less

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  Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas

  Sept 2017 - Sept 2019

  Staff Attorney
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  Court of Appeals for the Third District of Texas

  Sept 2019 - now

  Staff Attorney