Margret E. Lecocke - Attorney

Areas of Practice

• Pharmaceutical Litigation
• Personal Injury Litigation
• Labor and Employment Law

Professional Experience

• Clerked for Williams Bailey Law Firm for 2 years, then hired on as attorney.
• Manage personal injury docket of approximately 10-20 cases. Cases include motor vehicle accidents, plant explosions, and premises liability. See cases through from initial sign up to settlement or jury trial. Conduct all discovery, including drafting and responding to written discovery, taking depositions, formulating discovery strategy, and calculating damage model. Mediate cases prior to trial. Pre-trial work, including motion practice and preparation of pre-trial filings.
• Responsible for firm's Avandia docket. Maintain 200-plus Avandia clients' files. Currently filing cases phase in Southern District of Texas for transfer into MDL Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Common Benefit Attorney; Plaintiffs' Steering Committee.
• Arbitrate labor and employment cases for various local and international unions.
• Trial experience in fenphen litigation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and MTBE contamination litigation (Garden City, New York). Prepared pre-trial documents, argued pre-trial motions, prepared witnesses for testimony, conducted legal research, drafted trial briefs.
• Read and comprehend Spanish.

Education

• University of Houston Law Center, J.D., 2004
• Columbia University, Barnard College, 2001, BA English

Legal Memberships and Professional Affiliations

• State Bar of Texas
• Houston Bar Association
• Houston Young Lawyers Association
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association
• American Association of Justice

Professional Honors

• Young Professionals on the Rise 2008

Licensed to Practice

• Texas
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Community Affiliations

• Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure

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