Academy Member Inducted 2021
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Paul D. Clote
Diplomate member609 Main St.
Suite 2800
Houston, TX 77002

Available
- Practice Commenced: 2015
- Total Mediations (as of Feb 2023): 725
- Total Arbitrations (as of Feb 2023): 3
Practice Percentages
Biographical
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.
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Anti-Trust
- Appellate
- Banking & Finance
- Business Dissolution
- Class Actions
- Commercial/Business
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Employment
- Energy Sector (Oil/Gas)
- Intellectual Property
- Labor/Unions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
- Securities
- Trademarks/Patents
- Unfair Competition
Education
- University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 1977 (with honors)
- Northwestern University, B.A., 1974
Memberships & Affiliations
- Bar admission Texas
- Bar admission Colorado
- 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
Rates Information
Please call my assistant, Robin Brokaw 713 615 8522; or 713 725 1017