When a defense lawyer represents his client before not one but two juries — due to a retrial — and he wins two times, that ranks as an impressive accomplishment on its own.

But Bruce A. Griggs, a partner in Austin’s Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, also faced the pro-David, anti-Goliath aspects of defending a bank against allegations that it had discriminated against a former employee who had suffered a heart attack.