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Shawn L. RaymondSusman Godfrey L.L.P. Attorneys at Law
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Shawn Raymond is a trial lawyer whose practice concentrates on heavyweight litigation of all types.He has been described by one former client as "a passionate advocate, a skilled tactician," and "meticulous in his preparation."Mr. Raymond has been recognized in back-to-back-to-back years by Texas Monthly as a "Texas Rising Star" (2005-2007).H Magazine also has named him as a "Lawyer on the Fast Track" in the area of commercial litigation (2005) and as a "Top Professional on the Fast Track" (2006 and 2007).
Mr. Raymond's record as a trial lawyer demonstrates his ability to successfully litigate , for both plaintiffs and defendants , complex commercial and personal injury cases:
August 2006 , Along with Tom Paterson and co-counsel in New Mexico, Mr. Raymond represented the New Mexico State Land Office and settled a lawsuit with OXY USA, Inc. and an affiliate for underpayment of royalties allegedly owed to the state for carbon dioxide produced from the Bravo Dome CO2 Unit of northeastern New Mexico.
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August 2006 , On behalf of 4300 royalty and overriding royalty owners across the United States, Tom Paterson, Mr. Raymond, and New Mexico co-counsel obtained a $27.5 million settlement with ConocoPhillips for alleged underpayment of royalty on natural gas liquids produced from the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico and processed at the New Blanco Plant near Bloomfield, New Mexico.
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March 2006 , In a case involving a missing urn at a Houston mausoleum niche that garnered local media attention, Neal Manne and Mr. Raymond defended Congregation Beth Israel pro bono.
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September 2005 , Serving as lead counsel, Steve Susman and Mr. Raymond won summary judgment for their client, IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. ("ICE"), in a copyright infringement case brought by the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. ("NYMEX") in federal court in New York.
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September 2005 , Less than a week before the start of a jury trial in Clayton, New Mexico, OXY USA, Inc. agreed to pay $12 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by Susman Godfrey's Thomas W. Paterson and Mr. Raymond and the Gallegos Law Firm on behalf of a class of royalty owners who had leased mineral rights to OXY for the production of carbon dioxide at the Bravo Dome Unit in northeastern New Mexico.
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June 2004 , Mr. Raymond settled a RICO suit brought on behalf of his client, Equistar Chemical Company.The settlement amount equaled more than 100% of the damages Equistar suffered as a result of a scheme to steal stainless steel fittings and valves from the company's La Porte, Texas warehouse.
February 2004 , Bill Carmody and Mr. Raymond secured a six-figure settlement for a man whose left leg was nearly crushed when an 18-wheeler barreled on top of the car he was driving.
August 2003 , Barry Barnett, Geoff Harrison, and Mr. Raymond brought a multi-million dollar breach of contract against Lucent Technologies, Inc., on behalf of their Dallas-based clients.
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Mr. Raymond handled much of the day-to-day discovery.He also mock tried the case for his clients.The case settled shortly after the mock trial for a confidential amount.
July 2003 , Steve Susman and Mr. Raymond won a $30+ million jury verdict for Cavalry Investments L.L.C. against two Bank of America subsidiaries.
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February 2003 , Michael Lee, Carolyn Courville, and Mr. Raymond settled a $5 million breach of contract and fraud case against one of world's largest finance companies for a confidential amount.
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September 2002 , Ophelia Camiña and Mr. Raymond represented Minnesota-based Famous Dave's Barbeque company in a temporary injunction hearing against Colter's, the largest barbeque chain in North Texas.
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After expedited discovery and a four-day mini-trial, Ms. Camiña and Mr. Raymond persuaded the judge to deny Colter's request for an injunction.
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April 2002 , In an arbitration that Neal Manne, Harry Susman, and Mr. Raymond tried, they won a $3+ million arbitral award for three senior executives against Cambrian Capital Corp., a mezzanine finance venture owned by Mirubeni Corp., Dominion Capital, and Jefferies & Co.
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Mr. Raymond's successes in and out of the courtroom are a product of his unyielding commitment to working hard and righting wrongs.He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and grew up in Golden, Colorado.He attended The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and graduated magna cum laude from GW's Elliott School of International Affairs.During his senior year, Mr. Raymond was elected Phi Beta Kappa and received the Wilbur J. Carr Prize in International Affairs.
Fresh out of GW, Mr. Raymond joined the Teach for America program, which placed him in Sunflower County, Mississippi where he taught high school special education and social studies and coached the varsity football team.
After finishing his two-year teaching commitment, Mr. Raymond enrolled at the University of Texas School of Law.In 1997, he was a champion of the Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Court Competition.Later that year, Mr. Raymond and his partner won the Gibbs & Bruns Moot Court Competition.In the meantime, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded Mr. Raymond a Child Welfare Fellowship, and he spent a summer working at the Mississippi Attorney General's Office.
In 1998, Mr. Raymond became Managing Editor of the Texas Law Review.His Note, Where Are the Reasonable Efforts to Enforce the Reasonable Efforts Requirement?: Monitoring State Compliance Under the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, was published by the Texas Law Review in April 1999.
After graduating from law school with honors in 1999, Mr. Raymond journeyed to Galveston, Texas where he served as Briefing Attorney for The Honorable Samuel B. Kent, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas.
Following his clerkship, Mr. Raymond joined Susman Godfrey in 2000.In December 2004, he was elected partner at the firm.
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While working hard for his clients, Mr. Raymond remains deeply committed to community service.
During law school, Mr. Raymond co-founded the Sunflower County Freedom Project, a nonprofit organization committed to providing educational and leadership enrichment opportunities to children living in Sunflower County, Mississippi, where he taught after college.
In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for the Sunflower County Freedom Project, Mr. Raymond sits on the Board of Advisors for Teach for America in Houston and the Board of Directors for the Houston Area Women's Center.In 2005, he was featured in the Men Against Violence television campaign sponsored by the Houston Police Department, and in January 2006, the Women's Center appointed him to its Executive Committee.He and his wife, Alicia, co-chaired the Women's Center's 2006 5K "Race Against Violence."
In early 2006, Mr. Raymond co-founded the U.S. Public Service Academy, an effort to create a four-year, public-service-oriented undergraduate school modeled on the military service academies.Mr. Raymond wrote an op-ed for The Houston Chronicle that describes the project in greater detail.
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