Pillsbury’s William McMichael Earns Texas Bar College’s 2025 Franklin Jones Best CLE Article Award

Named in honor of Franklin Jones, Jr., a co-founder of the Texas Bar College, the award recognizes the year’s most outstanding continuing legal education article across all practice areas, celebrating excellence in legal scholarship and professional development.

McMichael’s article offers a practical roadmap for Texas insurance lawyers navigating the complex post-verdict landscape. Specifically, it addresses critical issues such as:

• Counsel obligations and strategic considerations after an adverse verdict;
• Supersedeas bond requirements and procedures;
• Insurer duties when a verdict exceeds policy limits;
• Potential damages arising during the appeal process and exposure to bad faith claims;
• The impact of judgment reversals or modifications.

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McMichael is a trial lawyer who maintains a nationwide practice representing businesses and high-net-worth individuals in commercial disputes and complex insurance coverage matters. His representative experience includes serving as trial counsel in state and federal courts in more than a dozen states. He also advises policyholders on emerging insurance coverage issues, including issues impacting general liability, commercial property, business interruption and directors and officers coverage.

McMichael has been recognized multiple times as a “Texas Rising Star” by Super Lawyers and as “One to Watch” by Best Lawyers for both Insurance Law and Commercial Litigation. He frequently writes and speaks on insurance and litigation-related topics and currently serves as the Young Lawyer Liaison to the Council for the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.