D. Mitchell

McFarland

Shareholder
Houston
700 Milam Street, Suite 800
Houston, TX 77002-2806
D.713.222.4041
E.mmcfarland@munsch.com

Overview

With more than 35 years of experience, Mitch has gained a reputation for successfully taking complex business cases to trial. Mitch has extensive experience with disputes in the oil and gas industry representing producers, pipelines and midstream players. His practice covers an array of complex commercial litigation, products liability claims, construction litigation, partnership disputes and personal injury litigation.

He served as a member of a national trial team defending a manufacturer of silicone breast implants and participated in four successful jury trials for his client on those matters. He has also served as Texas regional counsel in welding fume litigation, hernia patch claims and contact lens solution claims.

Mitch has served in numerous leadership roles within Munsch Hardt, having most recently sat on the Firm's management team as a member of the Board of Directors, as well as the Compensation Committee.

Education

  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with honors
  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., with highest honors

Admissions

  • Texas
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits
  • United States District Court for the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas
  • United States Supreme Court

Achievements

  • Thomson Reuters – Texas Super Lawyers (2011-2024)
  • Woodward/White, Inc. – Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation (2025)

  • Memberships

    • American Bar Association, Litigation Section (Former Subcommittee Chairman)
    • Defense Research Institute
    • Houston Bar Association
    • International Association of Defense Counsel (Former Committee Chairman; Satellite Trial Academy, Director, South Texas College of Law, 2009; Trial Academy, Instructor, Stanford University, 2004)
    • State Bar of Texas
    • Texas General Counsel Forum (Houston Board of Directors)

Overview

With more than 35 years of experience, Mitch has gained a reputation for successfully taking complex business cases to trial. Mitch has extensive experience with disputes in the oil and gas industry representing producers, pipelines and midstream players. His practice covers an array of complex commercial litigation, products liability claims, construction litigation, partnership disputes and personal injury litigation.

He served as a member of a national trial team defending a manufacturer of silicone breast implants and participated in four successful jury trials for his client on those matters. He has also served as Texas regional counsel in welding fume litigation, hernia patch claims and contact lens solution claims.

Mitch has served in numerous leadership roles within Munsch Hardt, having most recently sat on the Firm's management team as a member of the Board of Directors, as well as the Compensation Committee.

Experience

  • Energy Litigation

    Represented the developers of a crude-by-rail terminal facility located at the Houston Ship Channel. An international marketer of crude products became the exclusive customer

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  • Energy Litigation

    Successfully represented a major coke terminal operator in an arbitration of a $61 MM breach of contract claim related to the collapse of a coke pit wall at a refinery. At

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  • Construction Litigation

    Represented a Fortune 500 pipeline owner in a suit for delays and damages against the EPC contractor on an $86 MM compressor station project that involved six

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