Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Victor Vital spoke with numerous news outlets following his return to Haynes Boone, where he will serve as the global chair of the Trials Practice Group.
“My return really is a story of the strength of Haynes Boone’s alumni relations,” Vital told The Texas Lawbook. “It was because of my connection through the alumni community that I essentially am completing a homecoming journey and returning to the ranks of the firm where I first made partner.”
Vital said he was drawn to the robust growth Haynes Boone is experiencing in litigation and the firm’s response to that demand. The firm has increased its number of litigators by 36 percent in the last five years to about 180.
“The goal from the highest levels of the firm was to identify, locate and bring aboard strategic leadership of the firm’s already outstanding litigation talent to leverage that momentum,” Vital told The Texas Lawbook, adding that high stakes and bet-the-company trials are his passion.
"What we are seeing here at the firm are cases that are increasingly more complex," Vital told Dallas Business Journal. "That's in a variety of contexts, whether it's insurance recovery, whether it's bankruptcy litigation, we are seeing increasingly complex disputes. We're seeing the risks associated with those complex cases have significantly increased because of the large potential jury outcomes and jury awards."
Haynes Boone is also one of many law firms preparing for the launch of Texas' new business courts, which are set to debut Sept. 1. On June 17, the firm announced the formation of a task force aimed at "navigating the complexities of the new system."
Vital told The American Lawyer that he was attracted to the opportunity to take on a significant strategic leadership role. In his new position, Vital said he will focus on enhancing and elevating the firm’s trial lawyers with the goal of helping the group obtain “fantastic results.”
In an interview with Law360, Vital said he decided to become a lawyer because he's always loved arguing.
"In college, a friend asked me curiously why I hadn't pursued law as a profession given my proclivity and passion for argument," he said. "In that moment, it clicked. I had seen trial lawyers on TV and was drawn to what I was seeing, but it never occurred to me that I could argue cases to judges and juries for a living until my friend asked me that question."
From that point on, he has been singularly focused on trial law and trial advocacy, Vital said.
"I feel privileged to do something that I am so passionate about for a living and to be able to do so in courtrooms across the country," Vital told Law360.
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