email: jperdue@perdueandkidd.com EDUCATION: University of Houston (B.S.) 1961 (cum laude) University of Houston (J.D.) 1963 (cum laude) BOARD CERTIFICATION AND DIPLOMATS: Charter Member and Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, 1976 Board Certified in civil trial advocacy, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 1990 Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers Member, International Society of Barristers Member, The Inner Circle of Advocates EDUCATIONAL HONORS: Captain of Debate Team, University of Houston, 1960. "Whos Who in Colleges and Universities." Vice President of Omicron Delta Kappa. Representative of the University of Houston to national television program, "Young America Speaks." Recipient of Texaco scholarship. Senator from the College of Law to University of Houston student government. Highest academic average of graduating seniors, College of Law, 1963. National State Moot Court Teams, University of Houston College of Law, 1960-62. President of the Student Bar Association. Order of the Barons. President of the freshman law class. Debate Coach and Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, University of Houston, 1961-63. COURT ADMISSIONS: U.S. District Court, Southern District 1964. U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th District 1965. U.S. Supreme Court 1970. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Texas Bar Association Texas Trial Lawyers Association American Trial Lawyers Association International Society of Barristers Inner Circle of Advocates The Law Science Academy National Health Lawyers Association The American Board of Trial Advocates The American College of Legal Medicine The National Board of Trial Advocacy The American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys The Civil Justice Foundation Houston Bar Association (Director 1967-68) Houston Law Review (Director) University of Houston Law Alumni Association (Secretary/Treasurer) Advisory Board to the Health Law and Policy Institute, University of Houston College of Law A.A. White Dispute Resolution Institute Gulf Coast Legal Foundation (Director 1996-97) Houston Bar Foundation Texas Bar Foundation COMMITTEES AND OFFICES: State Bar of Texas Grievance Committee, 1969-71 State Bar of Texas Professional Ethics Committee, 1984-1985 State Bar of Texas Special Committee on Professionalism, 1988-1989 State Bar of Texas Continuing Legal Education Committee, 1988-1989 State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charge III Revision, 1988-1994 State Bar of Texas Judicial Qualifications Committee, 1988-1994 State Bar of Texas Qualification, Tenure and Compensation of State Judiciary, 1988-1989 President of the Houston Medical Legal Society, 1995 Texas Trial Lawyers Committee on Medical Malpractice (various years) Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Committees on Qualities of Science in the Courtroom and Birth Trauma, (various years) American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, Continuing Legal Education Committee, (1995-96) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Faculty Member, ATLA Ultimate Trial Strategies Program, (various years). Faculty Member, Texas Trial Lawyers Advanced Civil Trial Program, 1998-2000. PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS: Outstanding Alumnis-University of Houston College of Law, 1977. Distinguished Alumnis-Order of the Coif, University of Houston College of Law, 1986. The State Bar of Texas Gene Gavin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Continuing Legal Education, 1995. BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS: Co-Author of The Law of Strict Tort Liability, published by the Houston Law Review. Author of The Law of Texas Medical Malpractice (2d ed.) 1985. Author of The Medical Malpractice Handbook (1988). Author of a chapter entitled "Medical Issues Presented Through Retinopathy of Prematurity: The Standard of Care Issue" for the medical text, Retinopathy of Prematurity (1986), by Drs. McPhearson, Hittner and Kretzler. Author of Who Will Speak for the Victim? (1989), published by the State Bar of Texas. Editor, Who Speaks For Justice? (1999), published by Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Author, Chapter 37 entitled "Opening Statement" for ATLA’s Litigating Tort Cases, Vol. 3 (2003), published by West and ATLA. Author, I Remember Atticus: Inspiring Stories Every Trial Lawyer Should Know (2004), published by the State Bar of Texas. Author, Winning With Stories: Using the Narrative to Persuade in Trials, Speeches & Lectures (2006), published by the State Bar of Texas. LAW REVIEW AND JOURNAL ARTICLES: "Applicability of the Guest Statute to Suits Based Upon Negligent Entrustment," Hous. L. R., Vol. 3, pp.91-103, 1965; "Negligent Entrustment of Automobiles," Hous. L. R., Vol. 6, pp.129-147, 1968; "Negligent Entrustment-Another String in Your Bow," 3 Texas Lawyers Forum 3, p.11, et. seq., 1969; "The Texas Guest Statute-Hit it Head On," 6 Trial Lawyers Forum 3, p. 11, et. seq., 1972; "The Use of the Economist in Court," 36 Texas Bar Journal 4, 1973; "Res Ipsa Loquitur; Applicability to Malpractice Cases in Texas, 10 Tex.Tech L. Rev. 2, p.371, 1979; "Is Your Case Worth Pursuing," 85 Case and Comment 6, p.31, 1980; "An Analysis of the Physician's Professional Liability for Radiation of the Fetus," 18 Hous. L. R. 4, p.801, 1981; "Direct Corporate Liability of Hospitals," 24 S. Tex. L. J. 3, p. 773, 1983; "Recovery for a Lost Chance of Survival: When the Doctor Gambles Who Puts Up the Stakes," 28 S. Tex. L.J. 1, pp.37-68, 1986; "Medical Malpractice 1987; New Faces, New Facts, New Fundamentals," 18 St. Mary's L. J. 3, 1987; "Arguing Comparative Negligence for the Plaintiff," 50 Texas Bar Journal 11, pp. 1209-1213, 1987, "Comparative Negligence," 24 Trial 5, pp.61-64, 1988; "Words for the Wise-Boosting Your Linguistic Firepower, 26 Trial 7, pp.74-76, 1990; "Final Arguments in Premises Cases," 26 Trial 8, pp.50-55,1990; "Jury Bias: Ruminations on Identifying, Handling and Defusing Jury Bias," 28 The Houston Lawyer 2, pp.38-45, 1990; "Defusing Jury Bias," 27 Trial 4, pp. 50-55; "A Practical Approach to Jury Bias," 54 Texas Bar Journal 9, pp.936-41, 1991; "The Plaintiff's Appeal to the Religious Conservative," Texas Lawyer, 1992, pp.14-15. "The Five-Question Rule: Cross-Examination Simplified," 29 Trial 10, pp.40-43, 1993; "Oysters and a Beer--Two Bucks," Lawyers Then and Now Symposium, 31 Trial 1, pp.22-23, 1995; "The Petard Objection," 31 Trial 7, pp.50-54; "Cutting Costs--Cutting Care: Can Texas Managed Health Care Systems and HMOs Be Liable for the Medical Malpractice of Physicians?" 17 St. Mary’s L. J. 1, pp.23-67 (1995); "The Petard Objection," 31 Trial 7, pp.50-54, 1995; "The Difference Between ‘Good Enough’ and ‘Safe Enough’," Opening Statement Synposium, 32 Trial 3, pp.45-47, 1996; "I Had My Heros," ATLA 50 Year Symposium, 32 Trial 7, pp.58-59, 1996; "Thank God! It Wasn’t George Burns," Laughing Matters Symposium, 33 Trial 7, p. 85; "Trial Themes: Winning Jurors’ Minds and Hearts" (co-authored with Jim M. Perdue, Jr.) 34 Trial 4, pp. 34-42, 1998; "What Would Atticus Say?" Keys to Success Symposium, 34 Trial 7, pp. 42-43, 1998; "My Son, The Trial Lawyer" 35 Trial 1, pp. 60-61, 1999; "Touched By An Angel" The Cases We Remember Symposium, 36 Trial 3, pp. 71-74, 2000; To be published in the summer of 2000, South Texas Law Journal, "A License To Kill: The Unintended (?) Consequences of Milo on Kramer" (co-authored with Parker B. Binion). Approximately 300 professional and scientific papers presented between 1972 and 1996 included the following areas and organizations: Medical Malpractice: Medical Malpractice and Professional Liability Updates, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Civil Trial Course, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth 1977-1995; Texas Tech/St. Mary’s Symposium, San Antonio, 1996; State Judicial Conference, 1977; Harris County Medical Society, 1977; American Medical Association, Denver Colorado, 1978; Texas Society of Patient Representatives, Houston, 1978; Texas Tech College of Law Malpractice Symposium, Lubbock, 1979; Texas Nurses Association, Houston, 1979; American Medical Association, Palm Beach, Florida, 1979; University of Colorado College of Law Conference on Medical Malpractice, Denver, Colorado, 1979; Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons, Houston, 1980; Texas Hospital Association, Houston, 1981; Association of Operating Room Nurses, Houston, 1981; American Bar Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1981; Houston Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians, Houston, 1981; University of Houston College of Law, First Texas Institute on Health Care, Houston 1981; American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, Houston, 1983; St. Mary's College of Law and Texas Tech College of Law Malpractice Seminar, San Antonio, 1983; ABA Malpractice Conference, Houston, 1985; Sisters of Charity Health Care Systems, Inc., Emergency Medicine, San Diego, California, 1987, St. Petersburg, Florida 1988; State Bar of Texas Health Law Section, Austin, 1988; American Group Practice Association, Minn, MN., 1989; Texas Opthamalogical Society, Houston, 1990; University of Texas Medical School and Southwest Memorial Hospital, Houston, 1993; South Texas College of Law; Advanced Medical Malpractice Program, Houston, 1994; Fifth Annual Medical/Legal Symposium on Birth Trauma, St. Joseph Hospital, 1995; Sixth Annual Medical Malpractice Symposium, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, 1995; Texas Tech/St. Mary’s Malpractice Institute, 1996; Advanced Medical Malpractice Conference, State Bar of Texas, SantaFe, New Mexico, 1997; St. Mary’s College of Law and Texas Tech College of Law Medical Malpractice Conference, San Antonio, 1997. Product Liability: "Proof and Submission of a Strict Liability Action," State Judicial Conference, El Paso, 1977; American Society for Metals, Houston, 1977; Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, San Francisco, California, 1992. Psychology and Jury Selection: St. Mary's University and Texas Tech University Medical Malpractice Conference, San Antonio, 1987, 1992, 1994-1995; Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, New Orleans, 1993; New Mexico Trial Lawyers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June, 1993; New Mexico Trial Lawyers and Texas Trial Lawyers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 1994; University of Houston Advanced Medical Malpractice Seminar, 1987; Texas Tech/St. Mary's College of Law, Medical Malpractice Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, 1990; St. Mary's/Texas Tech Medical Malpractice Seminar, San Antonio, 1992; Texas Trial Lawyers Institute on Jury Trials, Houston, Austin, Dallas, 1992; ATLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, 1993; State Bar of Texas, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 1994; Texas Trial Lawyers, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1994; South Texas College of Law, 1994; Westlaw Jury Selection Program, Houston, 1995; Texas Trial Lawyers Association, White Fish, Montana 1995; Westlaw, Houston, 1995; State Bar of Texas, Houston, 1996; Advanced Personal Injury Course, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Dallas/Houston, 1997; South Texas College of Law, 10th Annual Advanced Personal Injury Law Course, Houston, 1997. Expert Witnesses and Evidence: State Bar of Texas, Evidence Tactics Program, Amarillo, Lubbock, Beaumont, 1981; University of Houston, Use of Experts, Dallas, 1990; St. Mary's/Texas Tech Trial Techniques Program, San Antonio, 1991; The Anatomy of a Trial, State Bar of Texas, Dallas, 1991; St. Mary's/Texas Tech Law School, San Antonio, 1994; Texas Trial Lawyers, Dynamic Advocacy Seminar, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1994; Texas Trial Lawyers 5th Annual Medical Malpractice Conference, Houston, 1994; The American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, Florida, 1994; American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, San Francisco, 1996. The Opening Statement: State Bar of Texas Institute Ultimate Trial Notebook, State Bar Convention, San Antonio, 1989; Dallas, 1990; Houston, 1991; Corpus Christi, 1992; Fort Worth, 1993; Austin, 1994; University of Houston Advanced Medical Malpractice Litigation Conference, Houston, 1989; ATLA, Ultimate Trial Advocacy Course, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1990; Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Trial Techniques Program, Houston, 1991; American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1991; California Trial Lawyers Association, Lake Tahoe, 1993; South Texas College of Law, 1994; State Bar of Texas, Advanced Family Law Institute, San Antonio, 1994; Litigation Training Program, State Bar of Texas, Austin, 1996; University of Texas Advanced Personal Injury Seminar, 1996; Health Law Section, University of Houston College of Law, Houston, 1996; State Bar of Texas, Advanced Trial Advocacy for Winners, Houston, 1997. Persuasion: State Bar of Texas Institute on Persuasive Techniques, Houston and El Paso, 1989; University of Houston College of Law, Houston, 1989; Harris County Bar Association, Houston, 1989; ATLA, Rising Star Seminar, New Orleans, 1990; Texas Trial Lawyers, Litigation Techniques, Houston, 1990; Montana Trial Lawyers Association, Big Fork, Montana, 1991; Advanced Civil Trial, State Bar of Texas, Houston, 1991; The Florida Academy of Trial Lawyers, Amelia Island, Florida, 1993; ATLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, 1993; Alabama Trial Lawyers 43rd Annual Mid-Winter Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, 1995; Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Dynamic Advocacy Seminar, Montana, 1995; TTLA Advanced Personal Injury Seminar, Dallas, 1995; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, 1997 Spring Advanced Trial Skills, Orlando, Florida, 1997; Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Overcoming Jury Bias, 1997. Miscellaneous: "Torts and the Family," State Bar Advanced Family Law Course, Houston, 1978; "Legal Considerations of the Plaintiff in Injury Cases Regarding Judgments," Houston Bar Association Institute on Judgments, Houston, 1982; "The Most Unpopular Person in Town--The Plaintiff’s Trial Lawyer," New Mexico Trial Lawyers, Albuquerque, 1995; "Creating a Powerful Closing Argument," 8th Annual Advanced DTPA/Consumer/Insurance Law Course, San Antonio, 1995. PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: Author The Law of Texas Medical Malpractice published by the Houston Law Review.Recipient of the first Clarence Darrow Award, 2005.Named in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America, from 1983 up to the present.Outstanding Committee Chairman of the Year-Houston Bar Association, 1974-75.Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston School of Law, 1974-82, 1989.Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston School of Law, 2007 to present.President of the Houston Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates 1984.Houston Bar AssociationSupreme Court of Texas 1963.Board Certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1978 |
