Christopher Lee Gadoury

Chris Gadoury joined The Lanier Law Firm in 2015 where he serves the firm’s clients in commercial and complex litigation matters. In 1998, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He then received his J.D., from the University of Houston Law Center in 2001, where he graduated cum laude. While in law school he served as Head Articles Editor for the Houston Journal of International Law. In 2000, he served as a Judicial Intern to the Honorable Vanessa D. Gilmore, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Since entering the professional arena, Mr. Gadoury has handled all aspects of trials and appeals of complex commercial litigation as well as white collar criminal defense matters, including shareholder derivative litigation, fraud, including securities and bank fraud, stock options back-dating, bribery, and kickbacks, contract disputes, business torts, fiduciary litigation, environmental crimes, intellectual property infringement, class actions, trade secret theft, antitrust, employment litigation, qui tam actions under the False Claims Act, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.

His vast experience of representation spans that of Fortune 100 companies, small businesses, individuals, high-end hedge funds as well as institutional investors with billions in assets. Mr. Gadoury also has extensive experience representing clients in all sectors of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production companies, drilling companies, oilfield equipment manufacturers, pipelines, seismic companies, and refineries.