Darin L. Brooks

Darin L. Brooks is a partner with Gray Reed & McGraw LLP in Houston and has built a commercial litigation and insurance coverage practice focused on flexibility and variety, allowing him to adapt to clients’ changing needs and solve a broad range of challenging problems across several industries, including insurance, energy, banking and health care. He defends clients in complex litigation before state and federal courts, in arbitration and on appeal, with an emphasis on disputes involving insurance, energy, contracts, personal-injury and maritime issues. As leader of the firm’s Insurance Practice Group, Mr. Brooks focuses his insurance practice on advising clients on complex coverage issues, providing coverage opinions and resolving related disputes before courts and arbitration panels in Texas and throughout the country. He is also a resource when policy interpretation questions, scope of insurance needs and other insurance issues arise in various disputes and transactions. Mr. Brooks has more than 20 years of experience guiding upstream, midstream and downstream energy businesses to favorable outcomes in all types of complex energy and commercial disputes. He serves as lead counsel in many cases, and also quarterbacks the local teams charged with resolving disputes in faraway venues across the country. Mr. Brooks’s practice also includes handling a number of different commercial disputes for a publicly traded bank, credit unions and other financial institutions. In addition, he is highly active in the firm’s health care practice, re-solving commercial disputes for health care providers and advising on the language used in many of their core agreements. Before starting his private practice, Mr. Brooks worked as a briefing attorney for Hon. Adele Hedges of the Texas Court of Appeals, 14th Judicial District, and as a judicial intern for Chief Justice Alice Oliver-Parrott of the Texas Court of Appeals, First District. He received hisB.A. in history in 1993 from Baylor University and his J.D. in 1996 from Baylor University School of Law, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi and the Harvey M. Richey Moot Court Society.