Biography
Marilyn Cayce is an experienced litigator with over thirty years of commercial and general civil litigation experience, focusing her practice on insurance defense, complex litigation matters, e-discovery, pharmaceutical, health care, tobacco, condemnation, products liability, maritime, personal injury, deep water offshore contribution and indemnity claims as well as first party insurance claims.
Representative Experience
- First Party Insurance defense practice
- Insurance litigation including trials and mass case docket management/MDLs
- Coordinating counsel in nationwide tobacco litigation involving million plus documents, e-discovery, and management of 20 + contract attorneys
- Refinery explosion mass tort litigation
- Manage two million document polybutylene plumbing fraud and product liability national litigation against major chemical company
- Major U.S. car rental company franchisee litigation involving nationwide discovery
- Mass tort and products liability dockets
- Coordinate discovery and communication between pipeline joint defense group in litigation with multiple municipalities over franchise issues
- Manage discovery in billion-dollar trade secret and patent infringement action from inception through trial
- Defense of health care providers through mediation and trial
- Condemnation, contract and real estate litigation
Education
- Tulane University School of Law (J.D., 1981)
- Tulane University (B.A., 1978)
- International Relations and French
Bar Admissions
- , 1985
- , 1981
Court Admissions
- United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
- United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- United States District Court, Western District of Texas
- United States District Court, Eastern Districts of Louisiana
- United States District Court, Western Districts of Louisiana
Professional and Community Activities
- Board of Governors - The Houston Club, present
- Phi Gamma Delta Mom’s Club, Past President
- Houston Yacht Club Trustee, 2008-2010
- Strake Jesuit College Preparatory Auction Committee, 2005-2013
Professional Recognition
- “AV Peer Review" Rated by Martindale-Hubbell™
Languages
- French
