Mitchell B. Bryant

• Representing Chevron U.S.A. Inc. in multi-case docket alleging that historical oilfield operations contaminated soil and groundwater with chlorides and heavy metals, securing complete defense verdict and favorable pre-trial outcomes.
• Defending Baker Hughes Company against docket of personal injury and property damage lawsuits arising from alleged chlorinated solvent contamination emanating from manufacturing facility.
• Defending Environmental Resources Management against personal injury and property damage claims related to alleged creosote groundwater contamination.
• Representing Chevron Midcontinent, L.P. in a gas migration and groundwater contamination case allegedly arising from hydraulic fracturing in an historic oil and gas field.
• Investigating catastrophic injury incidents on behalf of Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. and defending against related litigation.
• Representing Clarins Group in cosmetic talc asbestos litigation.
• Representing Renco Group and Doe Run Resources in mass tort litigation in federal court in St. Louis concerning personal-injury allegations by several thousand Peruvian children allegedly exposed to contaminants from a smelter in the Andean Highlands.
• Represented ConocoPhillips Company in property damage litigation surrounding historical oilfield operations alleged to have contaminated soil and groundwater with chlorides and heavy metals.
• Defended independent producer against allegations that historical oil and gas operations along Louisiana's coast contributed to coastal erosion.
• Defended nonprofit entity in litigation arising from a dispute over rights to a software system critical to the client's continued operations.

Mitchell Bryant is an associate in the Houston office of King & Spalding and a member of the firm’s Trial practice, representing clients in high-exposure toxic tort, mass tort, and catastrophic injury litigation in state and federal courts. 

Mitchell has represented oil and gas majors and independent producers in environmental contamination cases, extractive resources companies in environmental contamination mass-tort litigation, and a variety of other clients in tort, catastrophic injury, and commercial disputes.  He manages cases at varying stages of fact investigation, discovery, and motion practice, takes and defends depositions, has served as a member of several trial teams, and has assisted with appellate briefing and argument preparation.

Mitchell earned his law degree with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.  During law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Oklahoma Law Review, worked as a research assistant to Professor Liesa Richter, and received the Welcome D. Pierson Memorial Award.  Mitchell graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oklahoma, where he was a National Merit Scholar.  While at Oklahoma, Mitchell was a nonpartisan staffer in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.