BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

TIMOTHY D. RILEY

Tim Riley is the principal of Riley Law Firm, which has offices in Houston and Brownsville. He was a 1974 graduate of the University of Texas in Austin. In September 1980, Riley entered law school at night at the University of Houston Law Center, while working full time in the mortgage business. A little over two years later, in December 1982, Riley graduated cum laude from the University of Houston, finishing in the top 5% of his class. During law school, Riley served as Research Editor for the Houston Law Review. He was awarded the Vernon Law Book Award in 1983 by the Houston Law Review as outstanding editor, and also received the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law in 1982. Riley was also a member of the Order of the Coif and the Order of the Barons while at the University of Houston.

Riley enjoys an "a-v" rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and is Board-certified in Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is a member of the Houston Bar Association, and past chairman of the Houston Bar Association Committee for Interprofessional Relations - Physicians. He is an advocate member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Riley also is a Sustaining Life Fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation, and a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. Riley was a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Houston Law Review Alumni Association from 1994-1997, serving as Vice President in 1996. He has served on the Board of Trustees of Houston Lawyer Referral Service since 2005, and has served on the Board of Directors of Harris County Democratic Lawyers Association since that time as well.

Riley has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, teaching a course on Evidence. He is currently teaching a course entitled: "Legal, Practical, and Ethical Implications of Lawyering."

In 2002, Riley was elected as the Democratic nominee for the 22nd Congressional District of Texas. He lost in the general election of November 5, 2002, to the 18 year incumbent, Republican Tom DeLay.

On graduation, Riley began his legal practice with the Houston law firm of Butler & Binion. Three years later, he left to start his own firm, Floyd, Taylor & Riley, l.l.p., and later Riley & Harris, l.l.p. Because he was born in the Rio Grande Valley and maintains numerous contacts and cases there, Riley opened a satellite office for his law firm in Brownsville in 1997, which he continues to maintain today.

Riley's practice from 1983-2001 was centered primarily on the defense of medical malpractice lawsuits. He has handled some of the most complex cases at the assignment of most of Texas' major malpractice carriers. Riley served as statewide lead counsel for physicians insured by Texas' largest medical malpractice insurer in the Rezulin litigation, successfully represented a local medical school in more than 250 lawsuits in the TMJ implant litigation, and served in an advisory capacity in the silicone breast implant and Norplant mass tort litigation.

Over the years, however, Riley has remained involved in representing plaintiffs and in the development of plaintiff's law. He had the privilege of serving as lead counsel for the plaintiffs in El Chico Corp. v. Poole, 732 S.W.2d 306 (Tex. 1987). The El Chico case was important in Texas jurisprudence, in establishing dramshop liability and outlining the concept of duty in the negligence and negligence per se contexts. Riley has tried dozens of lawsuits and handled numerous appeals, on both sides of the bar, and in both in the state and federal systems. In addition to the El Chico case, Riley has had the privilege of arguing several additional cases to the Supreme Court of Texas.

In 2001, Riley elected to leave the insurance defense bar. To accomplish that, he dissolved his existing firm and formed Riley Law Firm. Since that time, his practice has been almost exclusively on the plaintiffs' side.

In 2005, Riley and two other lawyers acquired an office building in the historic Heights area, just northwest of downtown Houston, at 112 E. 4th St. Riley Law Firm moves into building and the building was proudly renamed: "The Civil Justice Center."

Riley has authored several published articles, and has been a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education and Continuing Medical Education seminars. He has been married for 32 years and has three children and one new grandchild. He lives in Houston.