Our Lawyers

Ted Weiss

Ted Weiss has practiced commercial and business litigation in Houston and other parts of the United States for over thirty-nine years. His work has included numerous trials before juries and judges in both federal and state courts. He has also handled many arbitrations and mediations for a variety of different clients, both corporations and individuals.

Ted received an undergraduate degree in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a law degree from the University of Texas with honors as a member of the Texas Law Review. He practiced at Baker Botts in Houston as an associate for seven years and as a partner for over thirteen years. He was also a partner in a twenty-five lawyer litigation boutique during the mid-1990’s. For the remainder of his career, he has worked independently in association with other lawyers as necessary. 

Ted has practiced in the following fields of law—breach of contract, fraud, stockholders derivative suits, breaches of fiduciary duty, securities fraud, and antitrust among others. He has handled cases for corporate clients in industries as varied as oil and gas, real estate, health care, securities, chemicals, steel, and dairy products. In applying this broad range of experience, he seeks to serve the needs of his clients in achieving their goals as effectively as possible.

Farley Grissett

In over twenty-three years of law practice, Farley Grissett has handled and participated in a wide variety of civil litigation matters. He began his legal career at Baker Botts, where he spent six years focusing most heavily on complex securities and other business litigation. He worked on trials and appeals in both federal and state courts, and also participated in arbitration proceedings. Thereafter, he practiced in small litigation boutiques for six years, which included a variety of business and contract disputes.

Farley’s educational background includes an undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Rice University and a law degree from Columbia University as a Thomas G. Shearman Scholar. In the past thirteen years, building on his experience in large and small law firms, he has conducted his own varied litigation practice in complex securities and other business litigation, handling trials in state and federal courts as well as arbitration proceedings

Beth Maxwell

Beth has eight years of litigation experience in private practice along with three years experience as a briefing attorney with a state court appellate judge. In her private practice, she worked for four years with a litigation boutique, concentrating on commercial litigation and professional malpractice cases. She has handled the entire range of pretrial responsibilities, including preparing summary judgments and other complex motions, drafting written discovery requests and responses, taking and defending depositions, and managing large document productions. 

Beth received her B.S. from the University of Houston and her J.D. from South Texas College of Law where she was Managing Editor of the South Texas Law Review. She has recently started her own independent practice