J. Wiley George

Wiley has served as lead counsel in a variety of recent litigation and counseling matters. He has represented such clients as:

• The City of Houston in a trial over the legality of increases in the City's water and sewer rates
• An ad hoc committee of convertible noteholders in a confirmation trial in Delaware Bankruptcy Court
• The NCAA in a wrongful death suit brought by the family of a student-athlete who played for one of the NCAA's member institutions
• A regional airline carrier in an arbitration against a major airline carrier over the interpretation of various aspects of the contracts governing the parties' relationship
• A property and casualty insurance company in multiple disputes over coverage for environmental and toxic tort liabilities 
• One of the country's fastest growing software companies in a suit brought by one of its investors in Delaware Chancery Court
• A publicly traded energy company in a Delaware Chancery Court trial over a failed merger with another publicly traded energy company
• An international property and casualty company as national counsel in connection with the cancellation of a nationwide insurance program  

• Audit committees of the boards of publicly traded companies in connection with investigations of alleged accounting errors and other allegations of wrongdoing
• Securities product providers, broker-dealers and/or registered representatives in NASD arbitrations over matters such as suitability of securities products, securities sales and terminations of registered representative agreements
• A national franchisor that faced fraud and unfair competition claims from several of its franchisees
• A Fortune 100 software company that sued the perpetrators of a fraudulent scheme that reached across the country
• A law firm accused of negligently structuring the tax aspects of a complex business transaction
• A fronting insurance company in connection with the placement of $80 million of reinsurance