On May 12, 2016, Partner Clifford Ashcroft-Smith secured another extraordinary victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Julian Martinez-Rodriguez, 13-41292. In a published case that now sets precedent across the three states within the Fifth Circuit, Ashcroft-Smith has reversed and vacated a 360-month sentence for his client. …

On August 6, 2014, partner Clifford Ashcroft-Smith secured an extraordinary victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Jermaine Frederick Frazier, 12-10874. The Court reversed a multimillion-dollar criminal restitution judgment, which was part of an expansive $20.5 million Dallas Cowboys Football themed mortgage fraud case involving a former …

Clifford Ashcroft-Smith secures major win for client in a South Texas courthouse, blowing out a $10 million personal injury case on summary judgment before the third phase of trials in the litigation. In doing so, Ashcroft-Smith defeated twenty-three causes of action for his client, who was the former president of an insurance company.

Overcoming incredible odds, Houston lawyer Clifford Ashcroft-Smith recently won big at the Fifth Circuit, and has now petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn the Texas gambling laws in a case with nationwide implications. The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to consider Phillip Dell Clark v. United States, Supreme Court of …

On August 1, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit published an extraordinary opinion reversed all of the money laundering convictions for Ashcroft Smith client Phillip Dell Clark — which invalidated half of the government’s evidence in the case — but it affirmed the gambling and conspiracy convictions. Ashcroft Smith Partner …