Phillip J. Duncan, Esq.
Attorney
Email: phillip@duncanfirm.com

Practice Areas: Plaintiff Tort Liability; Motor Vehicle Accidents; Automobile Accidents; Railroad Accidents; Truck Accidents; Products Liability; Personal Injury; Brain Injury; Spinal Injury; Wrongful Death; Disabilities; Catastrophic Injury; Consumer Law; Consumer Fraud; Class Action Litigation.

Admitted: 1974, Arkansas; 1976, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western District of Arkansas; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1984, U.S. Supreme Court; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Law School: University of Arkansas Law School, J.D., 1974

College: Arkansas State University, B.S., 1971; Advanced Course in Trial Advocacy, National College of Advocacy, Certified, 1993

Member: Pulaski County and Arkansas Bar Associations; Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association (Member, 3000 Club); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Life Sustaining Member); National College of Advocacy (Advocate).

Biography: Phi Alpha Delta. Public Defender, City of Little Rock, 1975-1978. Featured Summation Litigator. Fellow: Arkansas Bar Foundation; Roscoe Pound Foundation; Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Reported Cases: Morris, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, U.S.D.C., Western District of Arkansas, El Dorado Division, No. 00-1133 (8 million verdict); Anderson v. Air Evac, General Motors, Allison engine, and Dallas Air Motive, U.S.D.C., Western District of Arkansas, Fayetteville Division, No. 98-5143 (jury verdict: $2.9 million); Little John Trucks v. Palmer Gregory v. Shelton, U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Ark., Western Div., No. LR-C-97-0523 ($3.5 million settlement); Tappin v. ASPD, No. LR-C-91-627 U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Arkansas (certified and settled as Arkansas class action); Barnett, et al. v. General Motors, U.S.D.C., Western District of Tennessee, Western Division, No. 95-2215-TU, No. 95-2133-TU, and 96-2284-TU (consolidated litigation from Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee; certified as a class in Arkansas; settled); Baranowski v. General Motors, No. LR-C-96-922, U.S.D.C., Eastern District, Western Division (confidential settlement); Walker v. General Motors Corp., No. LR-C-96-223 U.S.D.C., Eastern District, Western Division (confidential Settlement); Clower v. Nissan, U.S.D.C., Northern District of Mississippi, No. 94CV-172-S-D, (confidential settlement); Clay v. Southern Pacific Railway Co., U.S.D.C., Western District, El Dorado Division, No. 94-118 (confidential settlement); Jamie S. Wilson and Danny Lee English v. Nelida E. Rodriguez and Radio Plano, Inc., District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, 141st Judicial District, No. 141-150213-93 (Settlement $666,506.50); Baker, et al v. GM a/k/a/ Johnson, et al v. GM (55 named plaintiffs in consumer fraud case) U.S.D.C., Eastern District, Western Division, No. 89-238 (confidential settlement); Page v. Suitt Const. Co., Inc. et al., U.S.D.C. Eastern District, Jonesboro Division, No. 84-295 (Jury verdict $4 million); Dees v. Allied Fidelity Ins. Co., 655 F. Supp. 10 (1984){Jury Verdict $2.35 million}; Bryant v. Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Company, U.S.D.C., Eastern District, Pine Bluff Division, No. PB-C-83-165 (Jury Verdict $900,000); Sanders v. Arkansas Missouri Power Co., 267 Ark. 1009 (1980, $1,099,000). Gott v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Arkansas, Jonesboro Division, No. JC-99-110 (confidential settlement); Cobb v. General Motors Corp., U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Arkansas, Western Division, No. 00-CV-69 (confidential settlement); Chance, et al. v. Western Arkansas Anesthesiology Associates, P.A., et al., U.S.D.C., Western District of Arkansas, Fort Smith Division, No.01-2275 (confidential settlement); McElroy, et al. v. CSX Corporation, Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, No. 2000-C-376 (confidential settlement); Watts, et al. v. Medcath of Arkansas, Inc., Circuit Court of Ashley County, Arkansas, No. 98-288-I.

Born: Blytheville, Arkansas, October 1, 1949

ISLN: 907716653