Attorney Profile

Lea Courington

Lea Courington

Curran Tomko Tarski LLP
2001 Bryan Street, Suite 2050
Dallas, TX 75201
Contact Contact Lea Courington
T: 214-270-1412
F: 214-270-1401

Visit: www.cttlegal.com
Practice areas: Business Litigation (60%), Personal Injury Defense: Products (20%), Antitrust Litigation (20%)
Law School: Duke Law School
Languages Spoken: English, French

Profile

In over 30 years as an active litigator, Lea Courington has handled a wide variety of cases in courts throughout Texas, ranging from antitrust, securities fraud, trade secret, trademark, real estate, employment, and other types of commercial cases to libel and slander, products liability, toxic tort, and professional malpractice cases. Many of the cases she has litigated have involved scientific, technical, technological, and medical issues, but she has also represented corporations, partnerships, and officers and directors in a variety of cases arising from complex financial and commercial transactions. She earned her J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1977 and her B.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1974. In 1980-1981, she was a Trial Attorney with the Antitrust Division of the USDOJ.

Selected to:

Texas Super Lawyers 2009
Texas Super Lawyers 2008
Texas Super Lawyers 2007

About Lea Courington

Admitted: 1977, Texas

Professional Webpage: www.cttlegal.com/sub/lea-courington.jsp

Honors and Awards: Selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a by-invitation only honorary society of trial lawyers whose membership is limited to 3,500 Fellows across the nation.
Bar/Professional Activity: SPEECHES AND PRESENTATIONS IN LAST TEN YEARS :  Speaker,  State Bar of Texas Advanced Civil Trial Seminar - November 1997    Panelist,  State Bar of Texas Advanced Medical Malpractice Seminar - March 1998  Speaker,  State Bar of Texas Advanced Medical Malpractice Seminar - March 2000 Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Trial Academy- Spring 2001 (Demonstration of Cross - Examination of an  Expert Witness)  Ortho-McNeil, Optimistic Future 2001  - May 2001 (Mock Trial of a Brain-Damaged Baby Case) (Seminar for Medical Residents) Speaker, Dallas County Court Coordinator/Court Clerk Seminar - August 2003 Speaker, Texas Association of Defense Counsel Summer Seminar - July 2004Speaker, State Bar of Texas Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course - April 2007.     Member, State Bar of Texas (State Bar of Texas Administration of Rules of Evidence Committee, 1988-1994 and current member of Antitrust and Business Litigation, Health Law, Intellectual Property, and Litigation Sections); American Bar Association (current member of Antitrust, Science & Technology, Litigation, and Intellectual Property Sections and Forum on Communications Law); and Dallas Bar Association. Member, Texas and Dallas Bar Foundations; Defense Research Institute; and International and Texas Associations of Defense Counsel.  Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America.
Pro bono/Community Service: Chair of Advisory Board, Archives of Women of the Southwest, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.  Active Member of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Dallas, Texas.
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