About
Mr. Enoch acts as a mediator relying both on his formal training as a Texas mediator and on his extensive experience in both complex commercial and fiduciary litigation.
That experience includes the handling of cases in Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Nevada, Mr. Enoch has experience in handling complex business litigation relating to contracts, oil & gas, securities, refining, derivative shareholder claims (from both sides), real estate development, bad faith Insurance practices, products Liability involving wrongful death, brain injuries, extensive burns and quadriplegia (and involving products from protective headgear and dietary supplements to explosive gasses), banking, federal trade commission regulations and business interruption, wrongful termination of employment (from both sides), claims against non-subscribers to workers’ compensation, commercial construction, manufacturing, heirship disputes, will and trust contests and guardianships.
He has been continuously Board Certified in the field of Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1988. He has been admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Northern, Eastern and Southern districts of Texas, and Western District of Oklahoma. He is also admitted to federal practice in the Northern District of Florida and is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law.
Many of Mr. Enoch’s trial wins have been in “bet-the-company” cases where a loss would have meant complete financial ruin for his clients. One such jury win was named as one of the “Top 10” jury cases of the year by the Texas Lawyer magazine.
Mr. Enoch believes that success means not only that his clients prevail but that his clients recover the fees they pay from their opponents. Two of his recent cases illustrate this point. Mr. Enoch obtained a unanimous jury verdict for plaintiff for award of professional fees of $70,000. Defendants had counterclaimed seeking millions. All counterclaims were dismissed and the jury also awarded plaintiff more than $1,270,000 in attorney fees for prosecuting the underlying case and defending the dismissed counterclaims. The entire verdict was upheld on appeal.
In another case he successfully defended a national restaurant chain in a claim brought by landlord for increased rents triggered by a radius clause which would have cost the client an additional $3.7MM. The verdict achieved on summary judgment and trial court awarded $359,756 in attorney fees incurred in defending the case and appeal. He then successfully defended the entire verdict on appeal.
Mr. Enoch’s preparation of so many cases – and taking them to trial – gives mediating parties the confidence that they are not evaluating their case before a novice who has never tried a case. Instead, they have the confidence of having someone who has “been there and done that” to assist in their settlement.
Representative experience
- Co-author: “Practice Notes: Persuasive Arguments that the Texas Comparative Responsibility Statue Does not require a 100% Allocation of Responsibility,” Texas Torts and Remedies, September 1991 Supp.
- Co-author: “It Isn’t Personal, It’s Just Business – Business vs. Business; Owners vs. Owners”
- The noted publication of Texas Lawyer has recognized one of his victories as one of the “Ten Biggest” of that year and wrote of another subsequent win, when the Plaintiff had sought $50,000,000 for a tragic head injury and the jury found that Mr. Enoch’s client (a helmet manufacturer) was not at fault. On the Plaintiff’s side of the docket, he has helped his clients obtain, by judgment or settlement, multi-million dollar amounts for cases involving wrongful termination of employment to business torts involving investments in large businesses. Mr. Enoch has also successfully helped families protect their loved ones in probate court from others who tried to financially exploit them and has defended attacks from others on their loved ones’ wills and trusts.
- Speaker Texas State Bar Advanced Civil Trial Seminars
Affiliations and committees
- Former Chairman of the Board of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)
- Who’s Who in American Law
- Former Mayor, City of Rowlett, Texas
Scope of practice
- Appellate
- D&O Litigation
- Derivative and Shareholder Litigation
- Derivative and Shareholder Litigation
- Employment Litigation
- Estate / Probate / Guardianship Disputes
- Fiduciary Duty Litigation
- International and Cross Border Probate
- Mediation
- Minority Shareholder Rights
- Noncompete and Trade Secrets
- Oil and Gas Litigation
- Personal Injury Defense
- Shareholder Disputes and Oppression
- Trusts, Estates and Fiduciary Litigation
- Wills, Probate and Trusts Litigation