Brent “Coondog” Coon, the Beaumont- and Houston-based plaintiff’s attorney who won millions from BP for his client Eva Rowe after her parents were killed in a plant explosion in Texas City in 2005 (which I wrote about in “Eva vs. Goliath,” July 2007), is now representing clients in the recent rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana. Talk to Coon for just five minutes and you can see that BP remains his Great White Whale—and that he’s an East Texas version of Captain Ahab. What were your first thoughts when you heard about the explosion on the offshore rig in the gulf?Must be a BP rig.Why?You know why. They are the most likely suspects—they have the most market share, and history has a tendency to repeat…The post The Usual Suspects appeared first on Texas Monthly.