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Leighton Durham

P.O. Box 224626, Dallas, Texas 75222

214-946-8000 phone   214-946-8433 fax

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EDUCATION

 

1996-1999                     Texas Wesleyan University School of Law

Valedictorian

Law Review

Dean's List

 

1992-1996                     Texas A&M University

Bioenvironmental Science, cum laude

GPA:    In major 4.0

Cumulative 3.7

 

 

EXPERIENCE

Durham & Pittard, LLP

Civil Appeals; Civil Litigation - Commercial and Personal Injury Litigation; Federal and State Courts; Trial Support and Legal Briefing; Federal Removal/Remand Practice.

 

January 2003 -              Honorable Ed Kinkeade

August 2003                 United States District Judge

Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division

Law Clerk

 

August 2000 -              Waters & Kraus, LLP

January 2003                Associate

Duties involved briefing and arguing before appellate and trial courts in multi-party toxic tort cases.  Duties also included managing cases from inception through trial.

 

August 1999 -               Justice John Ovard

August 2000                  Fifth District Court of Appeals at Dallas

                                     Briefing Attorney

 

Fall 1998                       Honorable Charles Bleil

United States Magistrate Judge

Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division

Extern

 

ACTIVITIES AND ADMISSIONS

 

2006, 2008, 2009, 2010  Texas Monthly Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star

 

1992 - Present              Member of Tyler Street United Methodist Church

Served on the Church Council, Trustees Committee, and Staff Parish Relations Committee, as well as chair of the Finance Committee.

 

2002 - Present              Tyler Street Manor - Home for Retired and Disabled

Individuals

                                    Vice President of the Board of Directors

 

2002 - Present              Member of the Dallas Bar Association

                                    Co-chair of the Library Committee 2005

 

2004 - Present              Member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association

Member of the Amicus Committee and the TTLA Advocates

 

2004 - Present              Member of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association

  

Admitted                      United States Supreme Court, Fifth Circuit Court of

Appeals,  the Northern, Southern, and the Eastern Districts of Texas and Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas.

 

 

PRO BONO ACTIVITIES

 

Amicus Curiae Briefs for the Texas Trial Lawyers Association

 

Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee v. American Home Assurance Co., 261 S.W.3d24 (Tex. 2008)

 

McAteer v. Silverleaf Resorts Inc., 514 F.3d 411 (5th Cir.)

 

Other Pro Bono Cases - Regularly represent local churches and pastors in various

matters including lease disputes, an adult adoption, wills, and probate.

 

 

 REPRESENTATIVE CASES

 

Adams v. Staxxring, Inc., No. 05-10-01142-CV, 2011 WL 2641698 (Tex. App.—Dallas July 7, 2011, no pet. h.).

 

In re John Deere Co., No. 08-1076, 2009 WL 4877773 (Tex. Dec. 18, 2009) (orig. proceeding) (per curiam).

 

City of Irving v. Seppy, No. 05-09-00017-CV, 2009 WL 4042902 (Tex. App.—Dallas Nov. 23, 2009, n.p.h.).

 

                                   Pinnacle Anesthesia Consultants, P.A. v. Fisher, 309 S.W.3d 93 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2009, pet. denied).

 

UHS of Timberlawn, Inc. v. S.B., a Minor, No. 05-08-00222-CV, 2009 WL 445615  (Tex. App.—Dallas Feb. 24, 2009, pet . denied).

Lanphier v. Avis, 244 S.W.3d 596 (Tex.  App.—Texarkana 2008, pet. Dism’d by agr.).

Boulle v. Boulle, 254  S.W.3d (Tex. App.—Dallas 2008, pet. denied).

Audino v. Raytheon Company Short Term Disability Plan, et al, 2005 WL 846234, No. 04-10729 (5th Cir. 2005).

Carroll v. Bank of New York, 2005 WL 241224, No. 10-03-00319-CV (Tex. App.—Waco Feb. 2, 2005, no pet.).

Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc. v. Kwasnik, 109 S.W.3d 21 (Tex. App.--El Paso 2003) (orig. proceeding).