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“My experience with WSH was excellent. Lead attorney Geoff Weisbart sorted through complex financial issues and developed a sound, understandable, and, most importantly, winning strategy. The entire team treated me with respect and made me feel as if I were their only client. I highly recommend WSH!”

- WSH Client

“One of the great joys of a very difficult situation for me, was watching the excellent work of the two younger lawyers you have taught and mentored.  Top skills, top coordinating ability, and high character.  It is obvious to me that part of your legacy will be leaving behind some well-trained honorable lawyers.

I have had the opportunity to work with some of the legends in this practice.  Now, towards the end of whatever my practice is or was, I have had the opportunity to be represented by one.

With gratitude and admiration.”

- WSH Client

“From the first moment I met Geoff, and his team, I knew I was in good hands. Their personal and legal advice, expertise, professionalism, attention to detail, lateral thinking, problem solving and absolute honesty brought reassurance at a vulnerable and tumultuous time. I’m so grateful!”

- WSH Client

Geoff began his legal career in 1986, at a time when civil cases proceeded to jury verdict more regularly. As a result, Geoff gained significant trial experience at an early stage in his career – experience that has proven to be very valuable to his clients in today’s legal environment.

Geoff’s practice involves all aspects of civil disputes, from state and federal trial courts, to arbitrations and appeals. He routinely advises clients with regard to complex and sophisticated legal issues, and represents those clients in court and in arbitration. Geoff is specifically adept at courtroom skills and cross examination, with a skilled dedication at getting the truth from witnesses and opposing parties. Geoff’s clients are comforted by his dedication to the facts of each case, and his ability to make truly complicated facts simple for a judge, jury and arbitrator to understand.

Relying on his background as a Commercial and an Airline Transport rated pilot and Gold Seal flight instructor, Geoff also handles a wide range of disputed matters affecting aircraft owners, operators and pilots, including business-related aviation litigation and FAA compliance issues.

Outside the Office

Geoff’s zest for life includes his passion for riding and training cutting horses and for flying airplanes. Geoff is a proud member of the National Cutting Horse Association and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. He regularly competes in NCHA cutting horse competitions on horses he has raised or owns.

Geoff is also regularly called upon by the AOPA to help counsel pilots who have had legal or regulatory infraction issues. Geoff flies a fully restored and modernized Beechcraft P Barron, which is often referred to as a true “Pilot’s Airplane.” Geoff has also continued to provide flight training to a limited group of pilots, as his experience as a commercial pilot and flight instructor spans over 45 years.

Representative Cases
  • Obtained a successful jury verdict and damage award in a business dispute involving complex statute of frauds issues.
  • Obtained a successful jury verdict for a sports league, receiving a multi-million dollar anti-trust judgment for the league.
  • Obtained a successful jury verdict against the EEOC, receiving a take nothing judgment for a client accused by the United States Government of discrimination.
  • Obtained a take nothing judgment jury verdict for a family in response to a lender’s claim for a deficiency judgment, following a foreclosure of the family ranch.
  • Obtained a take nothing jury verdict in defending a national banking institution against claims of mismanagement of trust property.
  • Prosecuted claims against an insurance company to a successful jury verdict and recovery for business damages for a corporate client.
  • Obtained a successful jury verdict for a client wrongfully accused of breaching her fiduciary duty under a Power of Attorney.
  • Prosecuted and successfully tried a damages case involving business interruption damages due to pollution contamination, obtaining all damages alleged and a recovery of punitive damages.
  • Successful trial result concerning the repair of a turbo prop engine, obtaining a specific finding of negligence against an FAA repair station.
  • Successfully represented, through appeal, two major telecommunications companies against class action claims stemming from an advertising dispute, defeating claims seeking a class action claim.
  • Represented nationwide classes of plaintiffs through successful certification of class action settlements, and settlement.
  • Sued multiple Internet providers to determine the source of anonymous posters attempting to negatively manipulate the stock price and business opportunities of a public company – conduct stopped.
  • Represented numerous parties in complex divorces and trials involving significant assets and issues involving complex tracing, family-limited partnerships, corporate buy-sell agreements, breach of fiduciary duty claims between husband and wife and international property disputes.
  • Won a landmark decision from the Texas Supreme Court, following a jury trial changing a commercial landlord tenant law affecting the calculation and mitigation of damages under a lease default.
  • Achieved defense verdicts in cases involving company’s drivers, as well as other traditional premises liability cases.
  • Handled multiple real estate disputes, including partition lawsuits involving commercial interests, restrictive covenants and landlord/tenant disputes.
  • Represented multiple executives and companies in trade secret and covenant not-to-compete issues in injunctions, trials and appeals.
  • Routinely represent executives and companies in severance disputes.
  • Routinely represents landowners in disputes with cities, municipalities and condemning authorities in disputes involving entitlements, land use restrictions, noise ordinances and condemnations.
  • Multiple engagements involving complex marital estate litigation, and Hague Convention claims involving children in foreign countries.
  • Prosecuted and defended accounting malpractice claims.
  • In pro bono matter, successfully represented four children who were sexual assault victims and ultimately wrote, lobbied and helped pass a first-of-its-kind Jane Doe Act for Texas in 2010.
  • Routinely called upon by aircraft owners, pilots, FAA Part 145 repair facilities, FAA Part 135 charter operators to advise as to aviation business disputes and alleged infraction of the FAA Regulations.
  • Tried regulatory issues within the FAA court systems, involving contract disputes and regulatory infractions.
Honors & Distinctions
  • American Board of Trial Advocates, Member
  • Texas Super Lawyers, 2003-present, Thomson Reuters Legal
  • Texas Super Lawyers Business Edition, 2011-present, Thomson Reuters Legal
  • Texas Super Lawyers Top 50 Central/West Texas, 2021
  • Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Million Dollar Advocates Forum
  • Airline Transport Rating issued from the F.A.A.
  • Gold Seal Flight Instructor Certificate issued from the F.A.A.
  • Best Lawyers in America, 2012-2024
  • Lawyer of the Year in Employment Law – Individuals – Austin, 2022, Best Lawyers in America
  • Lawyer of the Year in Real Estate Litigation – Austin, 2014, 2023, Best Lawyers in America
Professional Memberships
  • Member American Board of Trial Advocates
  • Prior Master and Member American Inns of Court
  • Member Austin Bar Association
  • Member State Bar of Texas
  • Member The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Bar Association
  • Member The Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association
  • Member The NTSB Bar Association
  • Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Panel Attorney
  • Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Representative
  • Bergstrom Airport AOPA Representative
Education
  • J.D., Texas Tech University
  • Fifth Circuit Symposium editor Texas Tech Law Review
  • B.S., University of Colorado
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