LINDA BROOCKS
Tel: 713.844.3002
E-Mail: lbroocks@ogblh.com
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Ms. Broocks maintains an active practice in trials and appeals of complex commercial, real estate, securities, personal injury, and employment cases.  In addition to being Board Certified in Civil Trial Law and Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Ms. Broocks is also a certified mediator, with experience mediating a variety of civil suits, and an arbitrator for the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers.

Ms. Broocks’s recent litigating experience includes:  successfully defending a national brokerage firm in a series of cases alleging fraudulent research; successfully defending an oil field services company accused of fraud and breach of contract by the operator of a gas well and prevailing on a counterclaim (including successfully defending appeals to the Texas Supreme Court); obtaining and collecting a significant award for several foreign investors against an international multi-level marketing company (including successful appeal, reversing a vacatur of the award); leading defense team in continuing representation of a major brokerage firm against claims by hundreds of plaintiffs arising out of failed commercial real estate loans; successfully prosecuting and defending cases involving non-compete agreements for energy companies and brokerage firms; part of team that secured two multi-million dollar settlements from major hotel company, in suits alleging fraud in inducing thousands of plaintiffs to invest in limited partnerships; defeating certification of purported class actions in various cases against a variety of brokerage firms; defending and obtaining favorable settlements of claims of employment discrimination against major energy companies; successfully prosecuting claims of fraud on behalf of investors in connection with a private placement of stock in a premium finance company.

Ms. Broocks earned the distinction of Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine in civil litigation defense in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and was selected as a 2000 Woman on the Move by the Houston Chronicle, Channel 11, and Texas Executive Women.  She is a board member and past president of the Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists, a member of the Houston Bar Association Litigation Section, a member of the HBA Appellate Section, and a Council member and Chair of the HBA Securities Litigation & Arbitration Section.  She is a sustaining life fellow and former Vice Chair of the Houston Bar Foundation and an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Ms. Broocks obtained her B.A. from Rice University in 1972 and her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas, where she was an editor of the Texas Law Review.  She was a Law Clerk to the Hon. John R. Brown, Fifth Circuit Chief Justice, and a former trial partner of Baker & Botts, L.L.P. in Houston, Texas.