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Ms. Hinson is the hiring partner at Carrington Coleman. She works primarily in the area of business litigation, including commercial disputes, professional malpractice litigation, director and officer liability, and class actions. She has extensive experience advising clients and litigating disputes concerning covenants not to compete, misappropriation, and other issues relating to the hiring, dismissal, or departure of employees. Ms. Hinson has successfully represented commercial clients on a number of significant matters, including representing officers and directors of public companies against claims including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and conspiracy; obtaining dismissal of a securities class action brought against the officers and directors of a major energy company; and winning summary judgments for defendants in numerous cases including a legal malpractice action against a major national law firm in which the plaintiff's sought up to $54.3 million in damages, and a federal Oil Pollution Act case in which the plaintiff sought over $38 million in cleanup costs. Ms. Hinson also has represented her clients at the appellate level, submitting briefs and presenting oral argument before numerous courts, including the Dallas and Fort Worth Courts of Appeals and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. | 