Beck Redden L.L.P.

Litigation

Partner

Everything Geoff Gannaway does is geared toward persuading a judge and jury. He works with each client to develop a strategy for success in the courtroom, and then weaves together every deposition taken, every motion filed, and every jury argument made.  At the onset of a new case, Geoff never loses sight of the end goal: distilling factual details into persuasive themes to present to a jury, ultimately making the most complicated cases understandable and the client’s position clear.

Geoff honed an attention to detail in Rice University’s engineering program, and now uses an engineer’s discipline to serve his clients as a lawyer.  The more complex the case, the more Geoff relishes the challenge. The subject matter of cases he has handled spans a broad array of industries and legal issues.

After a successful jury verdict, Tom Moogan, CFO for Advance International, explained: “From the intense level of preparation, to his collaboration with us to understand the particular complexities of our case, it was clear that Geoff worked to make this a case that a jury would hear and decide in our favor.”

Chair, Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas, 2023-2024 Chair-Elect, 2022-2023 Vice-Chair, 2021-2022 Treasurer, 2020-2021 Secretary, 2019-2020 Outstanding Council Member Award, 2020 Council Member, 2012-2023 President, Texas Law Review Association, 2023-2024 Chair, The University of Texas Law School Houston Area Alumni, 2023-2024 Houston Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Committee, 2017-2018, 2020-2021 (Chair 2017-2018) Member, Professionalism Committee, 2017-2018, 2020-2021 Member, Bench/Bar Committee, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2022-2023 American Bar Association, Contributing Editor, Section of Litigation’s Litigation News publication, 2017 Board Member, Texas Law Review Association Executive Committee Member, The University of Texas Law School Alumni Association Fellow, Houston Young Lawyers Association Board of Directors, Texas Young Lawyers Association, 2008-2012 Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation Editor-in-Chief, State Bar Litigation Section News for the Bar, quarterly newsletter for the State Bar of Texas, 2007-2010

J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, with highest honors, Grand Chancellor, 2002

B.A., Rice University, Economics & Chemical Engineering, magna cum laude, 1997