Is the tide finally turning for plaintiffs in the federal courtrooms of East Texas?

Defendants defied the region’s plaintiff-friendly reputation last year, winning three-quarters of the trials held in the Lone Star state’s Eastern District. But juries there delivered two plaintiffs verdicts on Friday, including one secured by former Eastern District judge Charles “Chad” Everingham IV, now at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.