Mr. J. Hampton Skelton, Attorney

Hamp Skelton is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Princeton University cum laude in 1978 with a degree in history, and graduated from the University of Texas School of Law with honors in 1981. He joined Vinson & Elkins in Houston upon graduating and practiced in its antitrust and commercial litigation section. He moved to Austin in 1986, becoming partner in charge of litigation at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld's Austin office. His present law office opened in September, 1991.

Hamp is a member of the bars of the states of Texas and Georgia, the United States Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and of the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. His practice encompasses a wide spectrum of litigation areas, with special expertise in coverage litigation, insurance regulatory litigation, lender liability, consumer protection/deceptive trade, securities fraud, racketeering, director and officer liability, and intellectual property. He has broad experience at the pretrial, trial and appellate levels, in both the state and federal courts, as well as expertise before the Texas administrative and regulatory agencies.

• Vaughn V. Burroughs Computer Corp. 1986

• Texas Worker's Comp. Ins. Facility v. State Board of Ins. 1995

• State Farm Lloyds v. Performance Improvement Corp. 1998

• St. Paul Ins. Co. v. Rakkar 1992

• Soto v. Philips et al. 1992

• Sharp v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Ins. co., et al 1997

• Pacific Indemnity Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. 1992

• Oram v. State Farm Lloyds 1998

• Butler Weldments Corp. et al. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, et al. 1999

• Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., et al. v. Texas Com'r of Ins. 1993