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Fred Hagans, Partner, Hagans, Burdine, Montgomery, Rustay, & Winchester is certified in both civil trial and personal injury law with over 30 years of successful legal experience.
He success record speaks for itselfˇ¦ More than 100 settlements or verdicts in excess of $1 millionˇ¦ Plus successfully defending multi-million dollar cases.
His firm handles civil litigation for both commercial claims and personal injury. In the commercial litigation area, he has successfully handled cases involving intellectual property, contract disputes, insurance coverage and bad faith, shareholder disputes, and employment related disputes. In the personal injury area, he has successfully handled cases involving personal injury and wrongful death where the claims involve product liability, product failures and defects, workplace injuries, vehicle collisions, railroad crossings, and medical malpractice. He has also successfully handled cases involving legal malpractice and defamation.
Fred is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and in Civil Trial Law and is a member of several organizations of trial attorneys, notably, the American Board of Trial Advocates and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He has served on several committees for the State Bar of Texas and the Houston Bar Association. They include the District 4-B Grievance Committee, the Supreme Court on Professionalism Committee, the Texas Lawyers Creed Committee, and the Texas Supreme Court Task Force Committee for the revision of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.
He has served as a Special Assistant in the State Bar of Texas Disciplinary Counsel program. He has given many speeches and written many publications pertaining to various issues in trial law. Fred has been appointed to the Judiciary Relations Committee of the State Bar of Texas for the term of 2004-2007. In addition to serving in these Bar-related activities, Fred has served as the Past President of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
"Chasing Justice" is the brilliant and unprecedented work of Kerry Max Cook's riveting chronicle of how a small-town murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history and sent the author, an innocent man, to hell for twenty-two harrowing years. Kerry Max Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row prisoners to be freed: This is his unbelievable story and the only firsthand account of its kind.
Wrongfully convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades on death row, in a prison system so notoriously brutal and violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving time in Texas's jails was "cruel and unusual punishment." As scores of men around him were executed, Cook relentlessly battled a legal system that wanted him dead; meanwhile he fought daily to survive amid unspeakable conditions and routine assaults. When an advocate and a crusading lawyer joined his struggle in the 1990s, a series of retrials was forced. At last, in November 1996, Texas's highest appeals court threw out Cook's conviction, citing overwhelming evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct.
And finally in the spring of 1999 long-overlooked DNA evidence was tested and it linked another man to the rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted. Today, Cook is a free man and the proud father of a young son.
A shocking look inside death row, a legal thriller, and an inspirational story of one man's ultimately triumphant fight against extreme adversity, Chasing Justice is a landmark work, written with the powerful authenticity of Cook's own hand. It will forever unsettle our view of the American justice system. You can purchase your own copy of Kerry's amazing book @ chasingjustice.com
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