Firm Profile

Having succeeded as trial lawyers at one of Houston’s largest law firms, David Beck, Joe Redden, and Ron Secrest formed Beck, Redden & Secrest, L.L.P. in January 1992. The Firm quickly established and has continued to build on a reputation for representing clients with energy and consummate skill and professionalism before juries, judges, and arbitrators in high-stakes disputes in Texas and throughout the country.

The Firm has grown from the three initial partners to eleven, and now comprises over 30 lawyers with extraordinary collective experience trying cases and arguing appeals involving, among others, the energy, communications, investment, banking, insurance, drug and health care, chemical, and high technology industries. The Firm also regularly represents professionals in the legal and accounting professions who are accused of wrongdoing.

The Firm handles a wide range of disputes, including oil and gas, product liability, antitrust, securities, environmental, insurance coverage, legal and accounting malpractice, and patent and other intellectual property cases, as well as multi-party and multi-district litigation. To provide value-added, cost-effective services, the Firm assembles efficient trial teams of attorneys and uniquely experienced legal assistants, carefully tailored to the needs of the individual client and matter.

Intellectual Property

The competitive pressures of the marketplace and rapidly advancing technology have significantly increased the number of intellectual property lawsuits being filed. In the last few years, the firm has served as trial counsel in more than 25 intellectual property matters throughout Texas, and, in particular, the Eastern District of Texas. While the firm has primarily represented defendants in those matters, our lawyers also have acted on behalf of several plaintiffs.

In September, 2006, the firm successfully defended OutlookSoft Corporation in a patent infringement trial in Marshall, Texas, securing a jury verdict invalidating each of the plaintiff’s patents-in-suit.

The firm has represented companies in intellectual property litigation involving a variety of industries, including those in the pharmaceutical, semi-conductor, computer software, communications, and consumer products industries. Representative clients have included Abbott Laboratories, Analog Devices, Inc.; Becton Dickinson& Company; Hewlett-Packard Company; Hynix Semiconductor America, Inc. ; Hyundai Electronics America Inc. ; Intel Corporation; LG Electronics, USA; Philips Electronics North America Corporation; Zenith Electronics Corporation; Research in Motion, and Cameron International Corporation.