Val is a Director at Coats Rose, with more than twenty years of experience in municipal and legislative representation and in related litigation. He has represented clients on all levels of the state and federal courts, and also before the Texas Legislature and a number of Texas municipalities and administrative agencies. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Val has also appeared in matters before the Supreme Court of Texas and the United States Supreme Court.
As a lobbyist, Val has represented clients before the Texas Legislature in business, construction, health care, real estate, housing, special district creation and other issues since 1981, as well as in administrative matters and in administrative hearings before state agencies, Houston area city councils and school district boards.
Val has extensive litigation experience in general and commercial litigation, real estate, construction, environmental, zoning and public liability law. As a municipal lawyer, Val has represented Houston area municipalities on a full time basis and in matters of individual case representation since 1980.
Tulane University (B.A., cum laude, 1976)
Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1979)
1979, Texas
U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
State Bar of Texas
Houston Bar Association
Neartown Little League – Board of Directors
Cub Scouts of America Pack 11 – Executive Committee
Texas TicKids, Inc. - Board of Directors
- “2007 Legislative Session – Observations and Insights,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Business Law Course, October 2007
- “2007 Legislative Session Report,” Commercial Real Estate Women – Houston Organization, June 2007
- “2005 Texas Legislature,” State Bar of Texas Advanced Business Law Course, November 2005
- “State Legislation for Corporate Counsel to Keep an Eye On,” University of Texas Corporate Counsel Institute, April 2005
- “79th Texas Legislature: Possible Topics Affecting Our Industry,” Cornerstone, The Magazine of the Houston Association of General Contractors, Winter 2004
- “State Legislation for Corporate Counsel to Keep an Eye On,” University of Texas Corporate Counsel Institute, March 2003
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