Executive Team
Ernest Higginbotham
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Government Affairs
Ernie has over thirty years experience handling varied and complex litigation, including antitrust, securities and patent litigation. For the past six years, Ernie was Vice President, Litigation of Nortel Networks with global responsibility for supervising and managing all Nortel's litigation. At Nortel, Ernie managed the largest cross-border shareholder class action settlement ($2+ billion) involving actions in two U.S. courts and three Canadian provinces, as well as coordinated with related regulatory and criminal investigations in both the U.S. and Canada. Ernie also personally mediated patent cases that led to payments to Nortel totaling $60 million. Prior to joining Nortel, Ernie spent 27 years in private practice in the Dallas office of the regional law firm of Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., where he represented major corporations in complex litigation, including class actions and multidistrict litigation. Ernie's varied practice included antitrust and commercial litigation. While at Strasburger, Ernie headed the firm's Business Litigation Division and was included in The Best Lawyers in America (Business Litigation). Ernie is licensed to practice in Texas, and has served as Chairman of the State Bar of Texas' Antitrust and Business Litigation Section. Ernie is a member of the Antitrust and Litigation Sections of the American Bar Association, and he is a Life Member of the American Law Institute.
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