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Steven Higginbotham

Steven Higginbotham is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Houston office. Steven recently graduated as valedictorian of the 2021 class of South Texas College of Law Houston. Steven was a member of the Appellate Advocacy Team and won multiple brief writing competitions. Steven also served as the Managing Editor of the South Texas Law Review.

The Texas Business Court — established to provide specialized adjudication of complex commercial disputes — has quickly become a significant forum for business litigation in the state. But what happens when a plaintiff, after removal to the Business Court, decides they would rather be somewhere else? Can strategic amendments to a petition strip the Business Court of jurisdiction and send a case back to the original state district court?

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