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Mr.
Breen has extensive litigation and trial experience aggressively handling and
winning a broad range of cases. He has dedicated his trial practice to serving
a wide variety of clients and handles cases involving damages to people and businesses,
including catastrophic accidents and injuries; class actions; defective products
and drugs; medical and other professional malpractice; insurance company bad faith;
officer/director, shareholder and corporate liability; contract, commercial and
employment disputes; real estate and real property disputes, including easement,
boundary and adverse possession issues; technology related disputes including
trade secrets and covenants not to compete; construction litigation; transportation
and trucking litigation; toxic tort and environmental suits; media law and defamation;
and litigation involving governmental entities. He served as an attorney for an
appellate court and now handles appeals in private practice. Mr. Breen is also
a licensed mediator.
State
Bar of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Court,
Western and Southern Districts and before all Texas State Courts
J.D. South Texas
College of Law, 1992
B.A., University of Texas, 1988
At
South Texas College of Law, Mr. Breen focused on developing his advocacy skills
through the finest and most successful Advocacy Program in the nation. Victories
included:
National
Champion- American Bar Association Appellate Advocacy Competition-(One of Top
2 Speakers in Nation).
National Champion - J. Braxton Craven National Moot
Court Competition- (Best Speaker in Nation)
State Champion - TYLA State Moot
Court Tournament (Best Speaker in State)
Mr.
Breen also won other Honors, including The Order of Barristers for High Honor
in the Art of Courtroom Advocacy; The Dean's Student Service Award; The George
T. Barrow Outstanding Student Award; The Student Bar Association Award for Outstanding
Male Graduate; and American Jurisprudence Awards for excellence in Torts and Appellate
Advocacy
Selected: Texas Monthly Magazine, Super Lawyer
Selected: Preeminent Lawyers in America
Selected: Austin Business Journal, Best of the Bar
Founding Fellow of the Austin Bar Foundation
Briefing
attorney to the First Court of Appeals in Texas from 1992-93
Adjunct Professor
at South Texas College of Law in Trial and Appellate Advocacy from 1993-Present
Writer and speaker for continuing legal education courses in Texas including
papers and presentations on Trial Tactics, Oral Argument on Appeal, Summary Judgment
Practice, Insurance Bad Faith, Mold Litigation, and Employment Issues such as
Trade Secrets and Covenants not to Compete
Fellow of the State Bar Foundation
Texas Young Lawyers Association
Austin Bar Association
American
Bar Association
Texas Supreme Court Historical Society
Eagle Scout and
former Assistant Scoutmaster |
