David W. Showalter
Work in Showalter Colgin & Davis, PLLC
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 46 years of experience
Personal Injury, Toxic Mold, Construction
1117 FM 359 Road, Suite 200, Richmond, TX 77406
About David W. Showalter
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury
- Toxic Mold
- Construction
Education
- Baylor University School of Law, Waco, TexasJ.D.
- Honors: Top 12% of class
- Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, OklahomaB.A.
Representative Cases
- Lead counsel in over 400 eminent domain cases. E.g., Recovery in Eminent Domain litigation with TXDOT involving IH-10 taking of church property: Obtained $5,700,000 settlement after initial offer of $1,000,000 recovery of $42,500 after initial offer of $6,600 for 20' easement from Water Authority; $290,000 after initial offer of $9,000 for gas pipeline easement; $199,000 recovery after $86,000 offer by mass transit authority; $399,500 recovery after $180,000 offer for drainage project, etc.
- $3,000,000 settlement for damage to oil well caused by defective down hole tool
- $600,000 jury verdict for movie theater patron assaulted in parking lot
- Confidential Settlements for 300+ victims of Texas City explosion of BP Refinery
- Settlements, verdicts or recoveries in excess of $5,500,000 for 2,000 +\- homeowners for defective construction by builders, fraud in sales transactions and concealed fault lines
- Lead counsel in numerous music industry claims, including: Copyright Infringement suit arising from ZZ Top song Thug: $600,000 settlement; Settlement of Chantilly Lace Royalty Underpayment suit against PolyGram (now Universal Music): $300,000; Jury Verdict Daily, et al. v. Gusto Records, et al., for Royalty Underpayment, Fraud and Punitive Damages: $1,800,000; Jury Verdict Brown, et al. v. Ames, et al., for Copyright Infringement and Misappropriation: $225,000; Settlement Szabo v. Landry’s Seafood Restaurants, Inc., for Copyright Infringement: Confidential Settlement; Federal Jury Verdict King v. Ames, et al., for Copyright Infringement and Misappropriation: $287,500; Federal Jury Verdict Ramirez, et al. v. Freddie Records, Inc. et al., for Copyright Infringement and Court Costs: $225,000. Total gross value of settlements, judgment and property recovered for infringement, royalty under-payment, breach of contract and fraud: $5,500,000+
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1977
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
Other Affiliations
- U.S. District Court of Texas
- Fort Bend County Bar
- Katy Bar Association
- U.S. District Court
- Board of Trustees of Southern Nazarene University , 1996 - 2003 (Member)
Articles
Published Works
- New Frontiers in Marital Property Law 2007 - Intellectual Property - Texas Bar Cle
- Article: Music, Lyrics, and Copyright Intellectual Property Rights in Music,, Texas Bar Journal, Vol. 74, No. 3, 2011
Office Info
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- Personal Injury
- Toxic Mold
- Construction
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