Stephen Susman
Stephen Susman was born in Houston, Texas, United States on January 20th, 1941 and is the American Lawyer. At the age of 83, Stephen Susman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Returning to Texas, Susman joined the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright), becoming one of its first Jewish partners. For the first eight years of his career he was a defense lawyer, before becoming a plaintiffs' lawyer. After taking a leave of absence and teaching antitrust law at the University of Texas Law School, and considering becoming a full-time law professor (a notion nixed by his then-wife), in 1976 he joined a small plaintiffs maritime firm, Mandell & Wright of Houston, that had a contingency practice, to start a new commercial litigation practice there.
Susman founded Susman Godfrey LLP in 1980. The firm specializes in representing plaintiffs in antitrust and securities class actions on a contingent fee basis. In January 2005 the firm was named one of the top two litigation boutiques in the country by The American Lawyer. It has been cited as the nation's top litigation boutique law firm in the Vault Rankings every year since 2012, and in 2020 was ranked by Vault as well as the nation's top midsize firm to work for, for career outlook, compensation, satisfaction, and selectivity (most of its attorneys were members of their schools’ law reviews, and nearly all clerked for federal judges, including 11 for U.S. Supreme Court justices). In 2006 he opened a New York City office for the firm.
He won some of the largest cases in U.S. history, including a $1.1 billion ($1,900,000,000 in current dollar terms) settlement on behalf of Texas Instruments in the breach of contract case of Samsung Electronics v. Texas Instruments in 1996; and a $536 million ($1,200,000,000 in current dollar terms) jury verdict on counterclaim in El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. GHR Energy Corp in 1988. Susman won a verdict for the plaintiffs in the Corrugated Container Antitrust case in 1979, at $550 million ($2,100,000,000 in current dollar terms) the largest verdict in antitrust history at the time, and the case ultimately settled for $500 million (A lawyer who joined the firm in 1990 was given an office tour by Susman. A large, irregularly cut piece of cardboard was stuck to the wall in Susman's office, and the new hire asked if it was a memento from Susman's famous Corrugated Container case. Susman's quick explanation: “No, f—face, it’s a Rauschenberg.”). He won a $140 million California jury verdict for the plaintiff in the antitrust case Masimo v. Tyco Health Care Group.
In 2010, Susman was among a team of attorneys that represented Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt in his divorce trial.
Susman split his time between his firm's Houston and New York offices.