Geoffrey Harrison joined Susman Godfrey in 1993, made partner in record time in 1996, and has served on the firm’s Executive Committee for years. He handles high stakes appeals, arbitrations, bench trials, and especially jury trials all over the country.
In its 2017 article calling Susman Godfrey “America’s Leading Trial Firm,” Lawdragon states, “Harrison has compiled an astounding track record of wins mixing commercial litigation and public interest cases,” called him and two others “a powder keg as trial lawyers” and “the dream team for whom any major firm would trade its current 50-year-old partner ranks,” and raved that one partner said “I’d take a bullet for him.”
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Called “invaluable in the courtroom” and hired for “big bet-the-company-type cases," Harrison has considerable experience with accounting malpractice, antitrust, class action, construction, contract, domestic and international arbitrations, environmental exposure, equipment leasing, executive compensation, fiduciary duty, fraud, offshore oil exploration and well decommissioning, onshore and offshore oil and gas production and transportation, pension liability, petrochemical and pipeline construction and contract disputes, securities, shareholder derivative, toxic torts, trade secrets, and other types of litigation.
Harrison's high stakes commercial litigation practice includes disputes in Alaska, California, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington, and includes international disputes in Brazil, England, France, Greece, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain, and Venezuela. He handles cases from start to finish, managing the litigation, serving as lead counsel at trial, and often handling and arguing appeals as well.
Closer to home, Harrison won a $40 million settlement for the City of Houston from Towers Watson & Co. in an actuarial negligence lawsuit based on pension benefits, and won a high profile jury trial and final judgment upholding the Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance in the face of a repeal challenge.
