Ware, Jackson, Lee, O'Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP

Ware, Jackson, Lee, O’Neill, Smith & Barrow, LLP partner, Don Jackson, defeated a $7,000,000 claim brought against our client by Haverford College.

Our partners, Don Jackson, as co-lead counsel, and Eileen O’Neill, as trial appellate counsel, represented the estate of a wealthy and prominent Texan when Haverford College sued the estate to collect on alleged pledges and promises by the deceased to provide money to Haverford.  The college’s evidence included signed pledges.  Our evidence included an extensive file that the college kept on our client, including our client’s drinking habits, and communicating other intimate details about our client’s personal life.  In the end, despite the college’s evidence of pledges, we received a verdict from the jury that defeated Haverford’s claims in their entirety.