Gavin Hill is a member in the Litigation Department in the Dallas office of Dykema. Mr. Hill advises energy, technology, telecommunications, and other companies, about risks and liabilities associated with a wide range of issues, including contract interpretation and breach, incident investigation, business-related torts and associated regulatory regimes. He also represents companies in complex commercial litigation, including multi-district litigation (MDL) and class action proceedings involving complex factual, jurisdictional and choice of law issues. Mr. Hill is experienced at developing strategies, defenses and trial plans and executing them in line with client goals.

Mr. Hill represents commercial clients in complex litigation, including oil and gas disputes. He is knowledgeable about the various operations and practices employed to drill oil wells, including those pertaining to offshore drilling, casing, float collar conversion, cementing, well integrity/pressure testing, well abandonment, wireline operations and mudlogging. He also counsels clients on legal issues related to: operational best practices in the oilfield, Maritime law (including the Robins Dry Dock doctrine), the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), among others.

Additionally, Gavin has represented telecommunications carriers in carrier-to-carrier disputes, in negotiating dark fiber leases and indefeasible right-of-use (IRU) agreements and in negotiating and arbitrating interconnection agreements pursuant to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 

Bar Admissions

Texas, 1996

Education
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1996

• Executive Editor, Journal of Law & Politics

Brigham Young University, B.A., 1993

• Editor, Pi Sigma Alpha Review

United States Air Force Academy