Jeremy Fielding specializes in complex business litigation. To each case, he applies his own distinctive brand of energetic advocacy, passionate creativity and dogged relentlessness to obtain excellent results for his clients.
Jeremy has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts and arbitration proceedings in matters ranging from complex business and energy litigation to intellectual property disputes. He has also represented parties on appeal in state and federal appellate courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His experience includes trying multiple cases to verdict and judgment.
Representative Trials and cases:
In late 2006, Jeremy won a take-nothing jury verdict in one of the nation's first nuisance lawsuits against a wind energy development. After a two-week trial, jurors in the case found that the Juno Beach, Florida based NextEra Energy Resources did not create a private nuisance when it constructed the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, the world's largest wind farm. Jeremy had extensive responsibilities in that case, deposing over 70 witnesses, including the plaintiffs' key engineering and valuation experts, briefing, arguing, and winning several key motions disposing of plaintiffs' primary claims and successfully trying the case to the jury. Jeremy then successfully defended the verdict on appeal. Since this case, Jeremy has achieved similar results in several other wind turbine nuisance cases, obtaining dispositive summary judgments and forcing walk-away settlements.
In 2008, Jeremy won a take-nothing award in a high-stakes arbitration proceeding involving his client, a Dallas-based medical imaging company. The litigation arose from his client's sale of several medical imaging centers. Following the sale, the purchaser sued, alleging the seller had failed to disclose several material facts and sought a multi-million award. After a two-week arbitration proceeding before a panel of three distinguished judges, Jeremy obtained a finding of no-liability and no damages in favor of his client.
RECOGNITION AND HONORS
Jeremy's outstanding work for his clients has earned him the recognition and respect of his peers, having been selected as a “Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine for 2008 and 2009 (as seen in Texas Monthly). He has also been a featured speaker at several national and regional conferences regarding his successfully representation of energy companies in nuisance cases involving wind turbine projects throughout the country.
Education and Legal Experience
Jeremy earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2003, where he was Executive Editor of The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Prior to attending law school, he attended Brigham Young University, graduating in 2000. Before joining the firm in 2005, Jeremy worked as a law clerk to the Honorable E. Grady Jolly of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He also practiced law in the Dallas office of Baker Botts. Jeremy is licensed in Texas, and is admitted to practice before the Fifth Circuit and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal and the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas.
Personal Background
Born in Pasco, Washington, as the first of seven children, Jeremy grew up on a potato and hay farm, where he was raised on a steady diet of digging ditches, milking cows and weeding fields. Following high school, Jeremy served a two-year mission for his church in East Africa, learning to speak fluent Swahili and cook up a mean batch of rice and beans. Jeremy is married to Laura Lanning Fielding and they are the proud parents to three sons - Alex, Aidan, and Avery - and one daughter, Maddie.
