Norton A. Colvin Jr.

Position

• Partner

Areas of Practice

• Personal Injury Defense
• Trial Practice
• Civil Litigation Defense
• Toxic Tort and Environmental
• Commercial Litigation
• Complex Litigation
• Insurance Defense
• Railroad Defense
• White Collar Criminal Defense

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1974
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1975
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 1979
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 2011
• U.S. District Court District of Colorado, 2013
• U.S. District Court District of Nebraska, 2012
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1980
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit 2019
• U.S. Tax Court, 1984
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1978

Certified Legal Specialties

• Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Education

• St. Mary’s University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas
  • J.D. – 1974
• University of Texas, Austin, Texas
  • B.B.A. in Finance- 1970

Classes/Seminars Taught

• “Lender Liability”, Texas Tech Univ. School of Banking, 1989 – 1991
• “Plaintiffs Tactics for Large Punitive Damages”, New York, 1995
• “Bankruptcy and Commercial Litigation”, NBI Conferences
• “Mediation of Nursing Home Cases”, American Health Care Association
• Conference, Nursing Home Defense, Chicago, 1998
• “Insurance Bad Faith”, South Padre Island, Texas, CLE, 2001
• “Preparing the Corporate Witness”, National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, Coeur d’Alene, 2006 “Insurance Coverage”, State Bar of Texas, South Padre Island, 2012
• Speaker at State Bar of Texas Advanced Insurance Law Course – San Antonio, 2015
• Speaker at South Texas Insurance Law Seminar 2016 & 2018
• Speaker at UT 21st Insurance Law Institute, Houston 2017

Honors and Awards

• AV Rated Martindale-Hubbell, 1984 – Present
• Texas Super Lawyers, 2007 – Present
• Forbes “Go To” Lawyer by Union Pacific Railroad Company, 2010
• Elite Lawyers of America
• Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• America’s Top 100 High States Litigators, 2018 – 2019

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• American Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
• Best Attorneys of America, Lifetime Member
• Cameron County Bar Association, 1975 – 1984, Board of Directors
• Cameron County Bar Association, 1984, President
• College of the State Bar of Texas
• Defense Research Institute Elite
• Lawyers of America
• Federal Bar Association
• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
• Hidalgo County Bar Association
• Lawyers of Distinction – Civil Litigation, 2021
• Litigation Counsel of America, Charter Fellow
• Martindale-Hubbell, Av rated for over 34 years
• Multi-Million Dollar Advocate Forum
• National Association of Bank Counsel
• National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel Standing Committee on Bankruptcy Practices and Procedures, 1986-1990 (Southern District of Texas)
• State Bar of Texas, 1986 – 1989, Grievance Committee, District 12-B
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel
• Texas Association of Mediators, Member
• Texas Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
• Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
• Texas Pattern Jury Charge Oversight Committee, 2005 – 2011
• Texas Super Lawyers, 2007 – Present

Fraternities/Sororities

• Delta Theta Phi