Why Armi
Armi Easterby
Founding Firm Partner
Armi has 25+ years’ experience trying cases in Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and has secured over $900M in total awards for clients. In 2019, Armi won the largest inverse condemnation case in United States history.
Cases range from business disputes (breach of contract, warrant, and fiduciary duties) to man-made environmental catastrophes. Work includes trying cases involving trade secrets, copyrights, securities fraud. International experience includes trial experience against the Bank of China and international arbitrations.
Armi specializes in commercial litigation, particularly in complex commercial and consumer cases, ranging from business disputes to man-made environmental catastrophes.
Armi’s journey in the legal industry began after graduating from the University of Texas in Austin in 1992. Finding his passion for serving those in need, he entered the University of Houston Law Center where he graduated cum laude in 1996 and was Associate Editor for the Houston Law Review.
Adding to his history of success, Armi recently won a historic case in the upstream condemnation trial. On December 17th, 2019, the United States Court of Federal Claims issued an official ruling in favor of Upstream homeowners and businesses on their Fifth Amendment inverse condemnation claims. The presiding Judge found that the government’s actions relating to the Addicks and Barker Dams and the ensuing flooding of plaintiffs’ properties constituted a taking under the Fifth Amendment.
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Won largest inverse condemnation case in U.S. history as court-appointed co-lead counsel. Currently representing over 1,500 families and businesses flooded by the Federal Government
Won $400M for 1,400 Gulf Coast businesses in connection with their economic loss claims against BP for damages resulting from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Oil Pollution Act claims)
Won a $140M international arbitration award after ~5 years of federal court litigation brought under the Federal Arbitration Act to compel various foreign state-owned enterprises to arbitrate claims relating to an oil and gas concession in Africa
Won $25M award after a trial relating to an oil and gas concession in Mozambique
Won $1.5M settlement after a jury trial for ~20 Bastrop families whose homes were destroyed by a man-made wildfire in 2009
Won $9.3M award for families in Pascoag, Rhode Island who had no clean water for ~6 months due to MTBE contamination of the town’s aquifer caused by leaking underground storage tank