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Mr. Coale's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including a wide range of contract, corporate governance, construction, and business tort issues. Texas Monthly has named him in every yearly list of "Super Lawyers." D Magazine listed him as one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas" in 2007 and has twice named him as a "Best Lawyer Under 40 in Dallas."Some examples of his cases include: led a team of lawyers in defense of over $80 million in claims raised under Mexican law arising from a gas turbine failure, coordinating international discovery in three languages over several years;lead counsel in a one-week federal jury trial for a Fortune 500 fiberoptics company about network monitoring technology (now on appeal by both sides); complete defense verdict in a two-week state court jury trial for breach of a claimed real estate partnership; successful trial of an involuntary bankruptcy petition that led to a groundbreaking exception to the requirement of three petitioning creditors. In re Moss, 249 B.R. 411 (Bankr. N.D. Tex. 2000)]; a Presidential Citation from the State Bar for defense of the constitutionality of itslawyer advertising rules [Texans Against Censorship v. State Bar of Texas, 888 F. Supp. 1328 (E.D. Tex. 1995)] service on a trial team defending a Fortune 500 company against over $100 million in claims by a bankruptcy trustee. | 