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Wolf Puckett is a partner at Mullin Hoard & Brown with a focus in complex commercial and high-stakes oil & gas litigation, including major lost profits cases. His experience includes business dispute litigation, environmental claims and free speech.
In 2022 Wolf and Steve Hoard successfully settled oil & gas drilling cases involving topleasing and claims for tortious interference, lease repudiation, prevention of performance, and lost profits, which resulted in drilling six horizontal wells.
Wolf and David Mullin successfully litigated a case for a real estate developer over prevention of residential lot sales and lost profits, resulting in a $2 million jury verdict in 1999.
In 2014 Wolf and David Mullin represented a manufacturing plant destroyed by wildfire causing lost profits, and successfully settled.
Environmental damages can be complex when it comes to litigation. Wolf has successfully litigated five catastrophic fires, including two 2006 mega-wildfires that destroyed a million acres of land. In 2000 Wolf and David also successfully defended a feed yard against claims of ground and surface water pollution.
In 2002 Wolf Puckett and David Mullin successfully defended a citizen in a libel lawsuit filed by a County Commissioners Court Judge. The claims were the result of statements made by Wolf’s client in print and broadcast media about the cost overruns regarding the building of a new jail. Wolf and David Mullin obtained summary judgment on all claims and then obtained affirmance of that summary judgment in the court of appeals for their client.
Wolf received his undergraduate degree in international relations and economics from Stanford University, his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.
Honors & Awards
- 2024 Co-presenter at the State Bar of Texas 10th Annual Oil & Gas Disputes Course, on Proving Oil & Gas Lost Profits With “Reasonable Certainty”
- AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®
Representative Cases
Hess v. McLean Feedyard Inc., 59 S.W.3d 679 (Tex. App. 2000); McClure v. Attebury, 20 S.W.3d 722 (Tex. App. 1999); Dawkins v. Meyer, 825 S.W.2d 444 (Tex. 1992); Wood v. Dawkins, 85 S.W.3d 312 (Tex. App. 2002)
Bar Admissions
State Courts
- Texas (1990)
U.S. District Courts
- Northern District of Texas (1993)
- Western District of Texas (2000)
Associations & Memberships
- State Bar of Texas