jcl.jpg (10548 bytes)Jeffery C. Lewis          jlewis@arwhlaw.com

Specialization

Board Certified - Civil Appellate Law
Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Practice Areas  

Civil Appellate Law
School Law
Litigation

 

Honors

 

Texas "Rising Star" (Texas Monthly, July 2004)

 

Bar Admissions

Press coverage  

Texas
Arkansas
U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Courts of Appeals
          Fifth Circuit 
          Eighth Circuit
U.S. District Courts

          Eastern District of Texas
          Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas

 

Selected Cases

 

Allen v. Albright, 43 S.W.3d 643 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2001, no pet.)  Press coverage

Arnold & Arnold v. Williams, 315 Ark. 632, 870 S.W.2d 365 (1994), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 990, 115 S.Ct. 489, 130 L.Ed.2d 400 (1994)

Bradshaw v. Pittsburg I.S.D., 207 F.3d 814 (5th Cir. 2000)
Press coverage

Buls v. Fuselier, 55 S.W.3d 204 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2001, no pet.)

In re Collom & Carney Clinic Ass'n, 62 S.W.3d 924
(Tex. App.—Texarkana 2002, orig. proceeding)

Johnson v. Fuselier, 83 S.W.3d 892 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2002, no pet.)

Jones v. Colley, 820 S.W.2d 863 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 1991, writ denied)

Lynch v. NorAm Energy Corp., No. 06-99-00073-CV
(Tex. App.—Texarkana 2000, pet. denied)

Morris v. McLemore, 313 Ark. 53, 852 S.W.2d 135 (1993)

Mullinax v. Texarkana I.S.D., No. 02-40220 (5th Cir. 2002)
Case history

O'Donald ex rel. Estate of O'Donald v. Hillis, No. 06-05-00050-CV,  (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2005, no pet.) (memorandum opinion)

O'Donald ex rel. Estate of O'Donald v. Wadley Regional Medical Center, No. 06-04-00121-CV,  (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2005, pet. denied) (memorandum opinion)

Roberts v. Titus County Mem. Hosp., 159 S.W.3d 764 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2005, pet. denied), cert. denied, --- U.S. ---, 126 S.Ct. 1070, 163 L.Ed.2d 862 (2006)

Roberts v. Titus County Mem. Hosp., 129 Fed.Appx. 82,2005, No. 04-41101 (5th Cir. 2005), cert. denied, --- U.S. ---,  126 S.Ct. 631, 163 L.Ed.2d 507 (2005)

Stiger v. Christus Health Ark-La-Tex, No. 03-40972 (5th Cir. 2004)

Therapy Corp. v. City of Texarkana, No. 02-40565 (5th Cir. 2003)
Press coverage

Toshiba Int'l Corp. v. Henry, 152 S.W.3d 774 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2004, no pet.)

 

Memberships

 

State Bar of Texas (Appellate and School Law sections)
College of the State Bar of Texas (2002-present)
American, Arkansas, Fifth Circuit, and Eighth Circuit Bar Associations

 

Education

 

 

Baylor University School of Law, Waco, Texas (J.D., 1990)
Baylor University, Waco, Texas (B.B.A., cum laude, 1987)
Texas High School, Texarkana, Texas (Valedictorian, 1983)

 

Miscellaneous

 

 

"Hit the Accelerator:  A Synopsis of Texas Interlocutory Appeals"  (TADC 2004 Summer Meeting, Jackson Hole, Wyoming)

"Top 10 Incurable Jury Arguments"  (TADC 2000 Fall Meeting, Galveston, Texas)

"et cetera" submission to Texas Bar Journal, April 2001

 

 

 

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