EDUCATION
- B.A.: Southern Methodist University
- J.D.: St. Mary’s University School of Law
- First Summer Law Clerk for the Honorable United States District Judge Orlando L. Garcia, Western District of Texas
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Honored as a “Texas Rising Star” (a Thomson Reuters service) in Texas Monthly, 2004 and 2005
- Recognized in Best Lawyers in Texas (The Wall Street Journal), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 for work in Litigation – Labor and Employment
MEMBERSHIPS
- Texas Bar Association
- Dallas Bar Association
COURT ADMISSIONS
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
- United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Previously admitted pro hac vice in Arkansas, California. Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah
Results Obtained by Gregory M. Clift
Defeated claim brought by major hospital against regional third-party administrator for late-paid medical bills, including recovery of client’s attorneys’ fees
Resolved partnership dispute for national forensic accounting firm through New York-venued arbitration proceeding
Obtained temporary and permanent injunction against ex-employee in Dallas applying the inevitable disclosure doctrine
Prosecuted trade-secret-theft case in New York federal district court for national restaurant chain
Favorably resolved lawsuit for plaintiff client against vendor that provided inaccurate, computer-generated flood hazard data relied on by client’s risk control group
Resolved complex tire recycling facility fire litigation in environmentally-conscious Southwest in favor of client including, in part, requiring electric utility defendant to fund $35 million clean-up of resulting waste
Negotiated buy-out of Mexican-based company to resolve claim for breach of various duties brought against former high-level executive in publicly-traded company
Part of team that obtained federal court injunction against trial consultant to enforce noncompetition and nonsolicitation covenants
Obtained dismissal of professional liability claims against forensic accounting firm and its partners prior to plaintiff’s summary judgment response deadline
Obtained disputed excess insurance policy monies for family who lost wife and mother to individual who was driving under the influence and killed two people
Obtained substantial buy-out for family-member owner of company in probate dispute
Resolved contentious partnership dispute where partner alleged client stole from business and was not an equity owner; payment made to client
Some of Greg's Results
Defeated claim brought by major hospital against regional third-party administrator for late-paid medical bills, including recovery of client’s attorneys’ fees
Resolved partnership dispute for national forensic accounting firm through New York-venued arbitration proceeding
Obtained temporary and permanent injunction against ex-employee in Dallas applying the inevitable disclosure doctrine
Prosecuted trade-secret-theft case in New York federal district court for national restaurant chain
Favorably resolved lawsuit for plaintiff client against vendor that provided inaccurate, computer-generated flood hazard data relied on by client’s risk control group
Resolved complex tire recycling facility fire litigation in environmentally-conscious Southwest in favor of client including, in part, requiring electric utility defendant to fund $35 million clean-up of resulting waste
Negotiated buy-out of Mexican-based company to resolve claim for breach of various duties brought against former high-level executive in publicly-traded company
Part of team that obtained federal court injunction against trial consultant to enforce noncompetition and nonsolicitation covenants
Obtained dismissal of professional liability claims against forensic accounting firm and its partners prior to plaintiff’s summary judgment response deadline
Obtained disputed excess insurance policy monies for family who lost wife and mother to individual who was driving under the influence and killed two people
Obtained substantial buy-out for family-member owner of company in probate dispute
Resolved contentious partnership dispute where partner alleged client stole from business and was not an equity owner; payment made to client
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