Art Almquist, a shareholder in the firm's Houston office, is Board Certified in Civil Trial and Personal Injury Law by the Texas Board of Legal in Specialization. His primary practice area is complex litigation, and he has tried and/or handled a wide variety of civil litigation including asbestos premises claims. Art is a national trial team member for one of his clients. He has defended benzene cases since the inception of that litigation. He has also represented individual companies and/or joint defense groups in litigation arising out of the Parker Hannifan plant in McAllen, Texas; the Longhorn Army ammunition plant in Marshall, Texas; and the North Americas plant in Marshall, Texas, where claims involved mixed chemical exposures to the work force with varied alleged injuries.Additionally, Art has extensive experience in the area of governmental liability. He represented San Jacinto County in the ACLU class action arising from the actions of the county sheriff chronicled in the book, Terror on Highway 59. He represented and tried § 1983 cases for the City of Galveston and the City of Nederland. He represented an engineering company in a professional liability claim arising out of the collapse of an offshore well support structure, and handled and tried other cases involving professional liability claims and legal malpractice litigation. He has tried products liability claims involving products ranging from aluminum ladders to truck tires, and has represented parties on both sides of the docket in contested probate matters. He has successfully argued cases before the Texas Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in addition several Texas Courts of Appeal.