Reda M. Hicks

Reda M. Hicks is a partner in Diamond McCarthy’s Houston office. With experience in a wide range of complex commercial litigation, Reda’s practice focus includes environmental tort actions, director and officer liability suits, accounting liability suits and securities litigation.

Since joining Diamond McCarthy in 2005, Reda has worked on a number of notable cases including two with international reach: the ongoing representation of a Philippine province in an environmental tort case against a multinational mining company, and the representation of a major Dutch bank in a suit involving officer and director liability and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

Reda is a certified LEED Green Associate. She graduated from the University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, earning her Juris Doctor as well as a Certification of Specialization in Environmental Law. At Boalt, Reda was the publishing editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly, served as competitive teams coordinator for the Boalt Hall Moot Court Board and was a fellow in the Environmental Law Institute's Associates Program.

A frequent lecturer and the author of many articles on a range of legal issues, Reda is particularly known for analyzing environmental and hazardous material cases in the U.S. and abroad.

Reda is licensed to practice in Texas and New York, and is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the New York State Bar Association.

Memberships

• Leadership Houston (Class XXIX)
• Houston Bar Association
• American Bar Association, Environmental Section
• Environmental Law Research Institute
• Houston Young Lawyer's Association
• Houston Downtown Alliance

Representative Cases

• Representation of a Philippine Province in an environmental tort suit against a multinational mining company.
• Defense of a group of specialists sued by the Securities Exchange Commission for securities fraud.
• Representation of the court-appointed Chapter 11 trustee in the bankruptcy of a major New York law firm.
• Representation of a limited partner in a breach of partnership agreement action against its general partner and the partnership.
• Representation of a major Dutch bank in a suit involving officer and director liability and breach of fiduciary duty claims.
• Defense of a national travel group against a competitor alleging misappropriation of trade secrets and corporation opportunities.

• Reda M. Hicks author, LEED and the Building Profession: No Competition, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy & Resources (SEER), Smart Growth and Green Buildings Committee Newsletter, Vol. 5 No. 1 (January 2012)
• Reda M. Hicks presenter, Panel on Extraterritorial Environmental Liability at the International Bar Association Annual Conference, Vancouver (October 2010)
• Reda M. Hicks, together with Dr. Dina V. Diaz, head of Pulmonary Medicine, Lung Center of the Philippines, present Occupational Exposure to Asbestos: A Medical and Legal Overview, Philippine College of Chest Physicians Annual International Conference on Health, Air Quality and the Environment (August 8, 2009)
• Reda M. Hicks and Andrea Levin Kim co-authors, In Ratings We Trust? The Role Played By Rating Agencies in the Subprime Debacle, American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation Newsletter (March 2008)
• Reda M. Hicks speaker, International Environmental Litigation: Interfacing with Global Communities, The Alliance for Bases Clean-up, Olongapo City, Pampanga, Philippines (April 21, 2007)
• Reda M. Hicks speaker, Grass Roots Activism: What a Community Can Do in the Wake of Disaster, National Organization of Mining NGO's, Manila, Philippines (April 12, 2007)
• Reda M. Hicks and Allan B. Diamond co-authors, Trends and Settlement Alternatives in International Parallel Litigation, presented by Allan B. Diamond at the Center for International Legal Studies Conference, Steamboat Springs, CO (February 12, 2007)
• Reda M. Hicks author, Riverkeeper, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency: Finally a Solution that the Courts Can Live With... Almost, 32 ECOLOGY L.Q. 689 (2005)
• Reda M. Hicks author, Healthy Forest Restoration Act-Will it Really Protect Homes and Communities?, 31 ECOLOGY L.Q. 639 (2004)
• Reda M. Hicks author, Instructing the EPA How to Regulate Vehicle Emissions, 30 ECOLOGY L.Q. 791 (2003)