Tim Riley

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Tim Riley, Riley Law Firm

Principal Office: Houston

    The Civil Justice Center
    112 E. 4th St.
    Houston, Texas 77007-2502
    Telephone (713) 646.1000
    Telecopier (800) 637.1955

Map and directions to Houston location

Brownsville Office:

    (Meetings by appointment only)
    1002 E. Taylor St.
    Brownsville, Texas 78520-7108
    Telephone (956) 550-8825

E-mail: TDR@txtrial.com

Narrative Biographical Summary

Personal:

Born February 15, 1954, Brownsville, Texas. Married for 32 years to Rita Faye Vermoilen Riley, three children, one grandchild.

Education:

1972 TEXAS SOUTHMOST COLLEGE, Brownsville, Texas

1974 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Austin, Texas
Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing

1980-82 UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COLLEGE OF LAW, Houston, Texas

Doctor of Jurisprudence, Cum Laude
Class Rank - Top 5%
Research Editor - HOUSTON LAW REVIEW
Order of the Coif
Order of the Barons
Board of Advocates
Recipient - American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law
Recipient - Vernon Law Book Award 1982 as Outstanding Board Member of Houston Law Review

Legal Employment:

2001-Present Riley Law Firm, Founding Principal

2003-2005 McGehee, Pianelli & Riley, L.L.P.,, Founding Partner

1995-2001 Riley & Harris, L.L.P., Founding/Managing Partner

1986-1995 Floyd, Taylor & Riley, L.L.P., Founding Partner

1983-1986 Butler & Binion, Litigation Section

Professional Associations:

Democratic Nominee United States Congress, 22nd District of Texas, 2002

Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, 2001-2002; 2005

Board Certified, Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization 1992, recertified 1997, 2002

Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization 1991, recertified 1996, 2001, 2006

MARTINDALE-HUBBLE LAW DIRECTORY, highest available ratings ("a" Legal Ability Rating (Very High to Preeminent), "v" General Recommendation (Very High))

Member, Texas Trial Lawyers Association

Member, Houston Trial Lawyers Association

Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation

Sustaining Life Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation

Houston Bar Association

1998-Present, Member, Attorney Fee Dispute Resolution Committee
1990 Chairperson, Committee for Interprofessional Relations - Physicians
Litigation Section

Houston Law Review Alumni Association, Board of Directors, 1994-1997, Vice President, 1996

Houston Lawyer Referral Service, Board of Trustees, 2005-

Harris County Democratic Lawyers Association, Board of Directors, 2005-

Continuing Education Invited Lectures:

The Fill-in-the-Blank Expert Report; Keeping Control on Going Forward with Your Case; Texas Trial Lawyers Association 14th Annual Medical Malpractice Conference, Dallas, Texas, October 21, 2004

HIPAA Traps for Unwary Practitioners, State Bar of Texas 2004 Advanced Medical Malpractice Course, San Antonio, Texas, March 18-19, 2004

Medical Malpractice: Recent Developments, Plaintiff's Perspective, South Texas College of Law Personal Injury Law Conference, Houston, Texas, March 6, 2003

Medical Malpractice Closing Argument - Plaintiff's Demonstration, Texas Association of Defense Counsel 2003 Trial Academy, Houston, Texas, February 15, 2003

Dumping and Other Statutory Violations, Texas Trial Lawyers Association 12th Annual Medical Malpractice Conference, Houston, Texas, September 21, 2001

Defendant Physician Cross-Examination Demonstration, Greater Houston Anesthesiology, P.A., Conference, November 6, 2000

Eighteen Texas Medico-Legal Cases Important to Every Physician, Greater Houston Anesthesiology, P.A., Conference, November 13, 1999

Demonstration: How Daubert and Other Evidentiary Standards Impact the Qualification of Expert Witnesses in Commercial Cases, 7th Annual Advanced Civil Trial Law Conference, South Texas College of Law, 1998

Hiding the Ball with the New Peer Review Privilege, Texas Trial Lawyers Association Medical Malpractice Conference, September 1997

Advocacy in Mediation, The Initial Caucus - Defense Counsel's Perspective, The CLE Institute, 1996

Trial Skills With the Masters, Voir Dire Workshop, South Texas College of Law, 1995

Post-Mortem of a Medical Malpractice Trial, Texas Heart Institute Anesthesiology Group, 1995

Orthopedics for Lawyers, Direct and Cross-Examination of the Orthopedic Expert, PESI Continuing Legal Education Program, Houston, Texas, 1990

Recognizing and Handling Medical Malpractice - The Defense Perspective, PESI Continuing Legal Education Program, Houston, Texas, 1989

Evidence in Personal Injury Cases, South Texas College of Law Advanced Personal Injury Short Course, Houston, Texas, 1986, 1987, and 1988

General Circulation Publications:

Mediation Foul: New Rules for the Rulemakers, Choices 7, DRI ADR, Winter 1998 (National Publication)

Turning the Tables: Mediators Lay Ground Rules for Parties All the Time. It's Time for the Parties to Create Their Own Code of Conduct, Texas Lawyer, Texas Trial Lawyer Supplement, Vol. 12, No. 50, p. 38 (March 10, 1997) (State Publication; same as DRI ADR article referenced above)

Comment, Hypnotically Enhanced Evidence in Criminal Trials; Current Trends and Rationales, 19 hOUSTON LAW REVIEW 765 (1982)

Limited Circulation Publications:

The Fill-in-the-Blank Expert Report; Keeping Control on Going Forward with Your Case (Paper for presentation at TTLA 14th Annual Medical Malpractice Conference, Dallas, Texas, October 21-22, 2004

HIPAA Traps for Unwary Practitioners (Paper for presentation at State Bar of Texas 2004 Advanced Medical Malpractice Course, San Antonio, Texas, March 18-19, 2004

Medical Malpractice: Recent Developments (Paper for presentation at South Texas College of Law Personal Injury Law Conference, Houston, Texas, March 4, 2003)

Dumping and Other Statutory Violations (Paper for presentation at Texas Trial Lawyers Association 12th Annual Medical Malpractice Conference, September 21, 2001, Houston, Texas)

Eighteen Texas Medico-Legal Cases Important to Every Physician (Paper for presentation at Greater Houston Anesthesiology, P.A., Conference, 1999)

Hiding the Ball with the New Peer Review Privilege (Paper for presentation at Texas Trial Lawyers Association 8th Annual Medical Malpractice Conference, September 1997)

Recognizing and Handling Medical Malpractice - The Defense Perspective (Paper for presentation at PESI Continuing Legal Education Program, Houston, Texas, 1989)

Evidence in Personal Injury Cases (Paper for presentation at South Texas College of Law Advanced Personal Injury Short Course, Houston, Texas, 1986, 1987, and 1988)

Reported Appellate Cases:

United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Federal District Courts:

Allstate Ins. Co. v. Disability Services of the Southwest, Inc., 400 F.3d 260 (5th Cir. 2005)

Associated Int'l Ins. Co. v. Blythe, 286 F.3d 780 (5th Cir. 2002)

Great Pines Water Co., Inc. v. Liqui-Box Corp., 203 F.3d 920 (5th Cir. 2000)

Lehn v. Montgomery Co. Hosp. Dist., 78 F.3d 582 (5th Cir. 1996)

Lewis v. Penthouse Int'l, Ltd., 981 F.2d 1256 (5th Cir. 1992) (counsel name omitted by printing error)

Great Pines Water Co. v. Liqui-Box Corp., 962 F.Supp. 990 (S.D. Tex. 1997)

Lewis v. Penthouse Int'l, Ltd., 825 F.Supp. 131 (S.D. Tex. 1992) (counsel name omitted by printing error)

Texas Supreme Court:

El Hafi v. Baker, 164 S.W.3d 383 (Tex. 2005)

Montgomery County Hosp. Dist. v. Brown, 965 S.W.2d 501 (Tex. 1998)

El Chico Corp. v. Poole, 732 S.W.2d 306 (Tex. 1987)

Ideal Lease Service, Inc. v. Amoco Prod. Co., 662 S.W.2d 951 (Tex. 1983)

Texas Courts of Appeals:

Baker v. St. Jude Medical, Inc., 178 S.W.3d 127 (Tex.App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 2005, pet. filed)

Baker v. El Hafi, 2005 Tex. App. LEXIS 6362 (Tex.App.-Corpus Christi 2005, no pet.)

Baker v. El Hafi, No. 2004 Tex. App. LEXIS 7882 (Tex.App.-Corpus Christi 2004), rev'd, 164 S.W.3d 383 (Tex. 2005)

The Doctors' Company v. McDonough, No. 14-00-00741-CV, 2002 Tex. App. LEXIS 6569 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 2002, no pet.)

Neville v. Molina, No. 14-00-00082-CV, 2001 Tex. App. LEXIS 3784 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 2001, pet. denied)

Conroe Medical Bldg. Asso. v. Montgomery County Hosp. Dist., No. 09-98-466-CV, 2000 Westlaw 300509 (Tex. App. - Beaumont 2000, pet. denied)

Lenert v. State Farm Lloyds Ins. Co., 1999 Tex. App. LEXIS 6504 (Tex. App. - Corpus Christi 1999, no writ)

The Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Texas Hospital Insurance Exchange, 1998 Westlaw 59125, 1998 Tex. App. LEXIS 5718 (Tex. App. - Austin, September 11, 1998, writ denied)

Headley v. Texas Hospital Ins. Exch., No. 12-96-000-29-CV (Tex. App. - Tyler, January 6, 1998, writ denied)

Korndorffer v. Baker, 976 S.W.2d 696 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1997, writ denied)

Speed v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1997 Tex. App. LEXIS 6340 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1997, writ denied)

Jampole v. Matthews, 1997 Tex. App. LEXIS 3867 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1997, no writ)

The Success Group, Inc. v. State Farm Lloyds, 1997 Tex. App. LEXIS 1695 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 1997, no writ)

Actis v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours Co., 1997 Tex. App. LEXIS 819 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1997, writ denied)

Cason v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours Co., 1997 Tex. App. LEXIS 811 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1997, writ denied)

Valarie Brown v. Montgomery Co. Hosp. Dist., 929 S.W.2d 577 (Tex. App. - Beaumont 1996), reversed, 965 S.W.2d 501 (Tex. 1998)

Osborne v. St. Luke's Episcopal Hosp., 915 S.W.2d 906 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1996, writ denied)

Adams v. Rios, 1996 Westlaw 337108 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.) 1996)

Brush v. Fustok, 1995 Tex. App. LEXIS 3347 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1995, no writ)

Bradt v. West, 892 S.W.2d 56 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1994, writ denied) (counsel name omitted by printing error)

Daniel Brown v. Montgomery Co. Hosp. Dist., 905 S.W.2d 481 (Tex. App. - Beaumont 1995, no writ)

Farmer v. deFrancesco, 1989 Lexis 2871 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 1989, no writ)

Super Syndicate, Ltd. v. Salazar, 762 S.W.2d 749 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 1988) (orig. proc.)

Robinson v. Minick, 755 S.W.2d 890 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1988, writ denied)

Dunn Equip., Inc. v. Gayle, 725 S.W.2d 372 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 1987) (orig. proc.)

Poole v. El Chico Corp., 713 S.W.2d 955 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 1986), aff'd 732 S.W.2d 306 (Tex. 1987)