William “Bill” Chaney, a member of Looper Reed and McGraw, P.C., is a leading practitioner in the area of complex litigation.  In addition to litigating complex, commercial matters in state and federal courts throughout the United States, Mr. Chaney has also been involved in significant cases involving herbicide damage to agricultural crops.  In these cases involving genetically modified rice, Mr. Chaney, and Looper Reed, have been retained to represent producers, mills, and brokers in cases that have been filed or prosecuted in both state and federal courts.   

Mr. Chaney’s experience also includes representing a plaintiffs’ class in a $75 million securities settlement relating to fraud in real estate limited partnership offerings as well as other commercial litigation and transactions in Texas and elsewhere.  He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of cases, including cases involving commercial mortgage backed security syndications, the distribution channels for specialized computer equipment, and a variety of issues arising out of tax shelter syndications, oil and gas drilling operations, and corporate financing transactions. 

Mr. Chaney is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and received his J.D. from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1977.  After law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable William M. Steger, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas. 

Working with Mr. Chaney on the genetically modified rice litigation is James Reed, Jr.  Mr. Reed, who has been honored by his peers as a Texas Super Lawyer, has been lead counsel in a wide variety of complex civil litigations throughout the country.  Most notably, Mr. Reed has successfully represented thousands of oil and gas royalty owners in numerous class action cases obtaining awards and settlements in excess of $100 million.

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