BRIAN P. LAUTEN

Brian has been listed as a Thomson Reuters Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly magazine every year since 2003 and has also been consistently listed on Thomson Reuters’ Top 100 in Texas list. Since 2015, Brian has been listed as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine.  Brian has been listed in Best Lawyers in America every year since 2019.  Brian is a past recipient of the John Howie Award from the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association for the "Courageous Pursuit of Justice in the Face of Adversity." Brian is a past recipient of the Don Keenan Founders’ Award presented by the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Foundation for tireless service to protecting the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial.

Brian is currently serving another three year term as a member of the Texas Pattern Jury Charge committee on business torts, consumer, and employment litigation.  He is a member of the invitation only American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), the invitation only Million Dollar Advocates forum, the invitation only National Trial Lawyers Association, and he is an invited Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America. Each organization recognizes the top tier trial lawyers in the country.  Brian is the Immediate Past President of the Dallas Chapter of ABOTA, he is a National Board Representative for the Dallas Chapter of ABOTA, and he is a member of the TEX-ABOTA Board of Directors.

In addition to being a highly credentialed business and commercial trial lawyer, Brian is also an experienced appellate advocate, who has orally argued before both the United States and Texas Supreme Courts. Brian has been lead counsel in complex disputes before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, the Dallas, Fort Worth, Texarkana, Eastland, El Paso, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and Amarillo courts of appeal. Of note, in 2013, Brian argued the landmark decision on Title VII retaliation in, Nassar vs. UTSW Medical Center, before the United States Supreme Court.