Frank L. Branson
Member

Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Professional Negligence (Medical/Legal/Engineering); Products Liability; Premises Liability; Construction Accidents; Business Litigation; Commercial Torts.

Admitted: 1969, Texas; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eighth Circuits; U.S. District Court, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas

Law School: Southern Methodist University (J.D., 1969; LL.M., 1974)

College: Texas Christian University, B.A., 1967

Member: Dallas Bar Association; State Bar of Texas (Prosecutor for Grievance Committee, 1983 and 1993); College of the State Bar of Texas; Dallas Lawyers Association (President, 1976-1977); Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Director Emeritus); Southern Trial Lawyers Association (Past President, 1986); Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Past Member, Board of Governors); International Academy of Trial Lawyers; American Board of Trial Advocates (Past President, Dallas Chapter, 1982); American Inns of Court (Master).

Biography: Delta Theta Phi. Recipient: Warhorse Award, Southern Trial Lawyers Association, 2001; Professor W. McKinley Smiley, Jr. Lighthouse Award, 2005; Mel Award, Melvin Belli Society, 2007. Listed: Top 10 Texas Super Lawyers, Texas Monthly, 2007-2009; Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers, Texas Monthly, 2003-2008. Contributor: "Using Demonstrative Evidence to Persuade in Trial and in Settlement," ATLA Press Video Creative Demonstrative Evidence Series, 1993; "Million Dollar Argument," Audiotape Series, 1982; "Trying a Medical Malpractice Case: Adversing the Defendant," ATLA/Matthew Bender Videotape Series, 1982-1984. Publications: "Demonstrative and Documentary Evidence in Contemporary Tort Litigation," ATLA's Litigating Tort Cases, Vol. 4, Chapter 42, ATLA Press, 2003; "Trucking Accident Litigation," Handling Motor Vehicle Accidents, 2nd Ed., Vol. 3, Chapter 13, West Group, 2001. Member, Advisory Committee, Supreme Court, 1985-1990. Fellow: International Society of Barristers; Texas Bar Foundation.

Born: Deport, Texas, February 10, 1945

ISLN: 908837814