Paul D. Clote

Paul has been a litigation attorney handling trials and appeals for more than four decades. His cases involve commercial and business disputes across a variety of industries.  He has tried to verdict in both state and federal courts, cases entailing fiduciary duties; partnership termination and windup; letters of credit; business fraud and civil theft; trust account funds; broker commissions; ERISA disability benefits; child abuse; minimum wage and overtime claims; oil and gas operating agreements; and an election contest.  He has argued appeals in the 5th Circuit, Texas Supreme Court and Texas Courts of Appeal. 

Paul also serves as a mediator, arbitrator and special master in complex commercial cases in Houston, Austin and Central Texas.

Paul has served as an Adjunct Professor in Mediation and Conflict Resolution at Rice University; a Visiting Professor in Commercial Arbitration at the National Law Academy of Odessa, Ukraine; and at the University of Debrecen (Hungary) School of Law.

• University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 1977 (with honors)
• Northwestern University, B.A., 1974

• Bar admission Texas
• Bar admission Colorado (inactive)
• Supreme Court of the United States of America
• United States District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits

Please call my assistant, Robin Brokaw 713 615 8522; or 713 725 1017