Larry Macon has more than 30 years of first-chair trial experience and has tried more than 100 jury cases, representing plaintiffs and defendants in all phases of litigation in state and federal court, and in national and international arbitration proceedings. Mr. Macon has been listed in numerous editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the Patent Law and Commercial Litigation categories, was selected for inclusion in 2008 through 2012 in the Bet-the-Company Litigation category, in 2010 was named Bet-the-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year in San Antonio, and was named the Best Lawyers in America San Antonio Litigation – Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year for 2012. He has been recognized in a survey of his peers every year since 2003 as a Top 50 “Texas Super Lawyer” in Central/West Texas, and was selected as one of 125 Extraordinary Texas Exes by The Alcade in 2010. Mr. Macon is an avid runner who has completed more than 800 marathons, and in 2010 he set a new Guinness World Record for completing the most marathons—106—in a single calendar year (breaking his own prior Guinness World Record of 105 marathons, completed in 2008).

Mr. Macon has represented clients as lead trial counsel in cases across the country, including—

• a global medical technology company in 2011 in obtaining dismissal of multiple shareholder class action suits seeking to halt a merger transaction valued at $6.3 billion
• a Canadian software development company in 2009 in bringing a patent infringement suit in the data integration field against 21 defendants in the Eastern District of Texas, including some of the largest companies in the computer industry
• an international media company in nine class action and shareholder derivative lawsuits in 2009, defending against claims of violations of securities laws and breach of fiduciary duties in connection with a merger transaction valued at $26 billion
• a major bus manufacturer in defending against claims arising out of a bus rollover that resulted in 2 deaths and 20 persons with severe injuries
• a nationwide plaintiff class of hospitals, nursing homes and other customers in an antitrust class action suit brought in federal court in Spartanburg, South Carolina, against the nation’s largest hospital bed manufacturer for alleged monopoly bundling; in 2006, Modern Healthcare identified the settlement as the sixth largest ever in an antitrust suit lawsuit of this type
• a medical technology company in a suit against a larger competitor in federal court in San Antonio, Texas, alleging antitrust violations; The National Law Journal identified the verdict as the third largest in the United States in 2002
• an international electronics and telecommunications conglomerate in defending a case filed by a competitor in state court in Dallas, Texas, seeking more than $1 billion in damages for alleged theft of trade secrets. The case was closely followed by the business and legal press and, as reported by Texas Lawyer in 2000, settled during jury trial after the Texas Supreme Court rejected the plaintiffs’ attempt to depose top-level executives of the defendants. See In Re Alcatel USA, Inc., 11 S.W.3d 173 (Tex. 2000)
• a global medical technology company and top-ranked university in patent infringement suits against competing global medical device manufacturers
• an international telecommunications company in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, defending against claims of alleged theft of trade secrets and breach of contract involving computer software
• a medical device company in bringing a patent infringement case that resulted in the then-largest settlement ever entered in the Western District of Texas, as reported by Texas Lawyer in 1994
• the president of the largest Texas Savings and Loan association to go into receivership in a criminal fraud trial that ended in acquittal; the case was included in Texas Lawyer’s “The Best of Big Suits” list for 1993
• a professional basketball team in litigation involving the acquisition of an all-star player
• a former mayor of the city of San Antonio defending against a slander suit
• plaintiffs in various antitrust class action suits New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Tennessee
• plaintiffs and defendants in multiple large patent infringement lawsuits in federal court throughout the country.

Mr. Macon is Board Certified in both Civil Trial Law and Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Mr. Macon received his B.A. in American studies in 1967 from Yale University and his J.D. with honors in 1970 from the University of Texas, where he was a member of Order of the Coif and Phi Delta Phi. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas.