AshbyCrinion LLP

Greg Crinion manages the firm’s Bay Area Houston, Texas office and directs the office’s consumer collection and general business litigation practice as well as the homeowner association representation practice. In addition to representing public and private financial institutions and financial institution regulatory entities in collection matters for many years, he has extensive experience in representing business entities in a wide variety of litigation matters nationwide.

Mr. Crinion focuses his personal practice in the area of real estate law, including real estate acquisition, sale and investment and real estate development. His work includes representing clients in the residential real estate development business as well as defending business entities in construction and development matters and environmental claims.

One of his court successes is presenting the argument adopted by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting a claim for common law strict liability based upon ultrahazardous activity. Claims for environmental damages in Texas must rest upon proof of negligence, not strict liability.

Before co-founding the firm, Mr. Crinion was an attorney with Exxon Company, U.S.A. in Houston and Exxon Corporation in New York City where he concentrated in environmental and construction litigation, and later an equity partner with a large Texas law firm practicing in the areas of litigation and environmental law.

He has authored an extensive list of legal articles, a number of which have been cited as authority by other legal scholars and used for classroom teaching purposes. Click here for a list of many of those articles.

Mr. Crinion is licensed to practice law in Texas and Wisconsin as well as in Colorado and the District of Columbia (inactive status). He is further admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Seventh Circuits, all federal district and bankruptcy courts in Texas, and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Mr. Crinion holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, including education at the University of Copenhagen, a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in international finance from the University of Minnesota, and a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School. He was Editor in Chief of the Wisconsin International Law Journal and served as an intern to Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Judges of the Eau Claire County Circuit Court.

Mr. Crinion may be contacted by telephone at (281) 990-8300 or electronically at gcrinion@ashbycrinion.com.