Gus David Oppermann V
Associate

PROFILE

Dave Oppermann has served as trial counsel for numerous business entities. His litigation experience involves maritime, energy, transportation, environmental, manufacturer defects and insurance coverage with cases filed in municipal, state, and federal courts, including the Louisiana, Texas, and United States Supreme Court.   Dave has acted as trial counsel in numerous complex civil litigation matters, involving all types of high exposure damages such as wrongful death, brain damage and quadriplegia. His experience includes product liability cases involving firearms, oil field equipment, elevators/escalators, heavy industrial equipment, and the defense of employers, premises liability, residential construction, and commercial litigation cases.

 

Dave has litigated in many venues in the United States other than Texas, including California, New York, Louisiana, Wyoming, Washington, Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma.

 

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

•     State Bar of Texas
•     Louisiana State Bar
•     U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
•     U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of Louisiana
•     U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
•     United States Supreme Court

 

EDUCATION

•    University of Texas, BA Economics
•    University of Houston Clear Lake, MBA
•    South Texas College of Law, JD
•    Texas A&M University, Master of Law

 

ASSOCIATIONS

•    Houston Bar Association, Life Fellow
•    State Bar of Texas
•    Louisiana State Bar Association
•    Louisiana Bar Foundation – Life Fellow
•    Houston Bar Foundation - Fellow
•    Maritime Law Association of the United States
•    State Bar of Texas, Grievance Committee 4A (six years, chairman 3 years)
•    Houston Bar Association
•    Houston Mariners’ Club
•    Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute (SEALI) – Port Captain

 

AREAS OF PRACTICE