Doyle Raizner LLP - Mike Doyle

Mike’s trial practice includes the representation of plaintiffs in maritime personal injury, international and trans-national personal injury, including work and holiday injury claims, and insurance bad faith.

Mike is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and has been lead counsel in dozens of personal injury trials. Mike has obtained many multi-million dollar verdicts, judgments, and settlements, including a jury verdict in 2004 of over $2.5 million for a Jones Act seaman injured in the Gulf of Alaska, and a jury verdict in 2006 of over $4.3 million in an insurance bad faith case.

Mike’s personal injury practice includes the representation of Jones Act and foreign seaman in disputes arising in U.S. waters and around the world. He also represents a number of U.K. residents injured in the U.S. on holiday, as well as working people from various countries who have been injured as a result of the actions of multinational companies.

Mike’s insurance bad faith practice includes the representation of workers’ compensation claimants who have had their claims delayed and denied by their insurers and adjusters. In addition, Mike has represented insureds and policy holders against domestic liability and excess insurers, and in transnational coverage disputes against U.K. and E.U. underwriters and company market insurers.

Biography
Mike obtained a B.A. in History at the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University Of Texas School Of Law. Mike has also completed coursework in marine insurance, international law, and maritime law at the University of London, St. Mary’s College of Law. Mike first practiced at Vinson & Elkins in Houston, then at Cook, Doyle & Bradshaw and The Doyle Law Firm, before forming Doyle Raizner LLP. Mike was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1990.

Community Activities
Mike also is an active leader in civic and community activities. He will begin his term as President of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association in September 2007, and he has been a member of the Board of Directors since 1999 and Chair of the Judicial Affairs Committee. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of Strake Jesuit College Preparatory School from 2002 to 2004; President of the Strake Jesuit Alumni Association, 2002-2004; and 1998 Alumni Fund Drive Chairman. Mike also has been a member since its inception in 2001 of the Houston Advisory Board of the AFL-CIO Community Fund, the labor community’s charity arm.

Publications, Presentations, and Honors:
Sequencing, Point of View, and Other Ways to Make your Case from the Start, Kansas Trial Lawyer Association Annual Crown Center Meeting, December 2004

Faculty Member & Speaker, Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) National College on “Essentials of Civil Litigation”, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 13-17, 2004

The Potential Costs When “Case Management” Crosses the Line: The Law on the Penalties and Pitfalls for Improper Handling of a Claim for Benefits by an Injured Worker, The Barnes Law Firm Workers’ Compensation Seminar, September 28, 2004

The Potential Costs When “Case Management” Crosses the Line: The Law on the Penalties and Pitfalls for Improper Handling of a Claim for Benefits by an Injured Worker, Workers’ Comp Update 2003, July 24-25, 2003

Michael P. Doyle and Jeffrey L. Raizner, “Winning the Battle of the Atlantic,” Association of Personal Injury Lawyers Newsletter (UK), Vol. 13, Issue 3, June 2003

The Medical Perspective, Claims Management, and Confidentiality Issues (with Dr. Charles R. Crane, M.D.), Texas Workers’ Compensation Update 2002, June 4, 2002

Current Frontiers in Maritime Fatal Injury Litigation: A Plaintiff Attorney’s Perspective on Maximizing Your Client’s Recovery by Your Choice of Available Legal Remedies, 9th Annual University of Texas School of Law Maritime Law Conference, September 22, 2000.

Professional Associations and Recognitions:
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Texas Trial Lawyers Association
Houston Trial Lawyers Association
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (UK)
Texas Monthly Super Lawyer - 2005, 2006, 2007