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By Brooks Igo
Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook
(February 17) — K&L Gates’ growing Houston office added litigator Brett Young as a partner to its toxic tort/product liability practice last week. He joins the firm from Norton Rose Fulbright and becomes the office’s 13th partner and 18th lawyer.
Young said he made the move to K&L Gates because of the opportunity to help clients solve problems in more places and the firm’s vision for making litigation less costly for clients.
“I most enjoy being a lawyer when serving as a problem solver, and I want to help clients resolve their litigation challenges as quickly and efficiently as possible,” he said. “K&L Gates’ fully integrated platform and business model means that the lawyer who brings the highest value is going to work on the matter – period.”
The University of Houston Law Center graduate focuses his practice on tort matters, dispute resolution and energy, environmental, catastrophic and mass disaster litigation. He said the most important case of his career was a 100-plus plaintiff, multi-county, mass tort matter from a catastrophic industrial incident.
“I started working on the case when the fire was still burning and managed the entire litigation for three years, while providing input into the regulatory response,” he said. “Unlike big individual cases, this huge matter gave me deep insight into what it means to guard and defend a company against tremendous litigation exposure and regulatory sanctions.”
Though defending environmental claims and intellectual property, managing legacy litigation and repeat litigation and finding efficient, business-oriented outcomes to commercial disputes remain priorities for his corporate clients in 2014, Young says the litigation trend data suggests employment matters rank high on the list of priorities for in-house counsel.
Young said he will partner with John Sullivan, who joined K&L Gates’ Houston office in November, in the pro bono representation of human trafficking victims and children seeking asylum.
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