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Jack E. Urquhart

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Education

  • The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
    • J.D. - 1973
    • Honors: Order of the Coif
    • Honors: Chancellors
    • Honors: Chairman, National Trial Competition, 1976-78
    • Honors: With High Honors
  • Williams College
    • B.A. - 1969

Classes & Seminars

  • Presenter, "Litigation Cost Control Through Advance Planning", ALI-ABA Corporate Counsel Seminar, 1989 to 1989

Published Works

  • "Texas Chooses Uniformity on E-Discovery: High Court Enforces Existing Rules as Means of Change", (Co-Author), International Association of Defense Counsel’s Product Liability Newsletter, October, 2009
  • "The Duty to Use Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics to Reduce the Risk of Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury", (Co-Author), Drug Recall Litigation Report, March, 2004
  • "The High Price of Drug Politics", (Co-Author), The European Lawyer, October, 2004
  • "Litigation Cost Control Through Advance Planning", The Practical Litigator, July, 1991
  • "Corporate Counsel's Guide to Litigation Management", Editorial Board, 1990
  • "Litigation Management and Cost Control", The Lawyer's Brief, September, 1989

Professional Associations

  • State Bar of Texas
  • State of Texas Bar Foundation, Sustaining Life Member
  • Houston Bar Association, Chair, Professionalism Committee, 2010 to 2011
  • Houston Bar Foundation, Life Fellow

Certified Legal Specialties

  • Basic Mediation, Manousso Mediation and Arbitration, LLC
  • Advanced Family, Divorce and Child Custody Mediation, Manousso Mediation and Arbitration, LLC

Practice Areas

  • Personal Injury
  • Civil Rights
  • Constitutional Law
  • Labor Law
  • Commercial Litigation

Bar Admissions

  • Texas

Honors

  • Elected to American Board of Trial Advocates
  • Fellow of the Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates
  • 2015 Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas
  • Rated AV Preeminent* by Martindale Hubbell for 35 years
  • Texas Super Lawyer 2005-2015
  • Houstonia Magazine’s Top Houston Lawyers 2015
  • International Products Liability Who’s Who 2015