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| ProfileTom Forestier is a member of Winstead's Energy & Environmental Law and Commercial Litigation practice groups and chairperson of the firm's Diversity Committee. Tom is recognized for his experience in representing energy companies, banks and other lending institutions, television stations, newspaper publishers, condemning authorities, landowners and developers and insurance companies. He has represented local, regional, national and international clients in complex litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country in matters involving breach of contract claims, business tort claims, defamation and libel claims, invasion of privacy claims, eminent domain and condemnation.
Prior to establishing his private practice, Tom served as a briefing attorney to the Honorable James R. Nowlin, United States District Judge in the Western District of Texas, Austin Division. Representative Experience
- Commercial litigation
- Oil and gas litigation
- Media law
- Libel, slander and defamation litigation
- Condemnation/eminent domain proceedings
- Insurance litigation
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| | University of Texas School of Law | University of Texas at Austin- B.S., Petroleum Engineering, 1983
- The LBJ School of Public Affairs
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
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- State Bar of Texas
- American Bar Association
- Montgomery County Bar Association
- Houston Bar Association
- Texas Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- Houston Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- International Right of Way Association
- Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
- Northwest Assistance Ministries (Executive Board, Chair-Elect 2007-2008)
- Hispanic Bar Association of Houston (Board of Directors, 2006-2008)
- 2007 Texas Minority Counsel Program, Steering Committee
- St. Frances Cabrini Center for Immigrant Legal Assistance (Advisory Committee)
- Houston Golf Association, the official promoters of the Shell Houston Open
- Texas Union Advisory Council (Life Member, Appointed by The University of Texas Board of Regents)
- Institute for Energy Law (Center for American and International Law), Advisory Board Member
- University of Houston, Advanced Real Estate CLE Advisory Committee Member
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- Texas Super Lawyers, Texas Monthly, 2005-2007
- Houston's Top Lawyers, H Texas, 2006
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- Erosion of the Attorney Client Privilege
- Latest Developments in Condemnation Law
- Privacy, Taping and Technology: The Ethical and Legal Boundaries of Obtaining and Disseminating Information
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