Background
Holt, J. Stephen was born on July 20, 1967 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States.
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J. Stephen Holt
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Arkansas State University (Bachelor of Science, 1989). University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Juris Doctor, with honors, 1996).
Career
Worked at Duncan & Rainwater, Trial Lawyers A Professional Association (Little Rock, Arkansas) specializing in Plaintiffs Trial Practice. Negligence, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Wrongful Death and Workers Compensation Law. Civil Rights, Discrimination, Public Sector, Labor, Business Torts, Fraud and Misrepresentation Litigation.
Admitted to the bar, 1996, Arkansas and United States.
District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas. Chairman, Moot Court Board, 1995-1996.
Semi-finalist, Judge Conrad B. Duberstein National Moot Court Competition. Regional Finalist, National Trial Team Competition, 1996.
Member and Associate Comments and Survey Editor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal, 1995-1996.
Author, "Survey of Legislation - Insurance Law," 18 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal 355, 1996. Member: Pulaski County, Arkansas, and American Bar Associations. This law firm prosecutes plaintiff personal injury, consumer fraud, and product liability cases that generally involve catastrophic injuries.
The firm"s trial team concept has resulted in multi-million dollar jury verdicts and settlements.
The law firm uses a systematic approach to casefile preparation and utilizes a state-of-the-art computer system (which includes networking, database and textbase software, computerized legal research and internet access). Non-lawyer members of the trial team include Paralegals, Law Clerks, and Investigators.
Subject matter experts are used extensively. The law firm has experience in class action certification/litigation and multi-district federal court litigation.
The law firm is a member of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG), is signed counsel on shared protective orders in various product liability cases, and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers (Personal Injury, Products Liability, and Civil Trial Practice).
Representative personal injury, consumer fraud, and product liability cases include: Sanders v. Arkansas Missouri Power Company, 267 Arkansas 1009, 1980; Dees v. Allied Fidelity Insurance.
Company, 655 F. Supp.
10, 1984; Page v. Suitt Const. Company, Incorporated. et al., Number.
84-295, Doctorate.C.E.C. Arkansas 1984; Clay v. Southern Pacific Railway Company, Number.
94-118; United States.D.C., Western District, El Dorado Division.
Clower v. Nissan, Number. 94CV-172-South-Doctorate, United States.D.C., Northern District of Mississippi. Walker v. General Motors Corporation, Number.
LR-C-96-223 United States.D.C., Eastern District, Western Division.
Baranowski v. General Motors, Number. LR-C-96-922, United States.D.C., Eastern District, Western Division.
And Barnett, et al. v. General Motors, United States.D.C., Western District of Tennessee, Western Division, Number.
95-2215-Technology Union, Number. 95-2133-Technology Union, and 96-2284-Technology Union. The law firm also defends civil rights cases filed against Arkansas counties, serving as legal counsel for the Association of Arkansas Counties" Risk Management Fund.
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Membership
Member: Pulaski County, Arkansas, and American Bar Associations.
