Background
Branton, James LaVoy was born on April 19, 1938 in Albany, Texas, United States. Son of George Lyndon Branton and Oletha Imogene (Westerman) Johnson.
Branton, James LaVoy was born on April 19, 1938 in Albany, Texas, United States. Son of George Lyndon Branton and Oletha Imogene (Westerman) Johnson.
United States. Air Force Academy. University of Texas at Austin (Bachelor of Arts, 1961. Juris Doctor, 1962). Phi Eta Sigma: Pi Sigma Alpha.
Phi Delta Phi.
Associate Editor, University of Texas Law Review, 1961-1962. Author and; spoken languages: Spanish.
Worked at Branton & Hall, Professional Corporation (San Antonio, Texas) specializing in Negligence, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Aviation and Business Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1962, Texas. 1970, United States. Supreme Court and United States.
Court of Military Appeals.
United States. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits. United States. District Court, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.
Phi Eta Sigma. Pi Sigma Alpha. Phi Delta Phi.
Associate Editor, University of Texas Law Review, 1961-1962. Recipient: "Trial Lawyer of the Year" Award, 1994, by all eight Texas Chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Featured in Texas Bar Foundation"s "Concurrent Interests," March 1992. Featured on Cover of San Antonio Monthly Magazine, January, 1991.
Listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" in Personal Injury.
Author and Lecturer: State Bar of Texas, Advanced Civil and Personal Injury Trial Courses, 1981, 1984 and 1992. Speaker and Mock Mediation Participant, Texas ABOTA Seminar for Mexican Lawyers and Judges, Monterrey, Mexico, 1994. Company-Author: of 10 Volume Trial Lawyer"s Series,, Knowles Law Book Publishing, Incorporated.
(1981-1992).
Company-Edition, Federal Practice Guide, Lawyers Cooperative(s). (1996). Adjunct Professor, Trial Advocacy, Saint Mary"s Law School, 1982-1983. Chairman, Lawyers Involved for Texas, 1973-1974.
Director, 1986, and Member, Executive Committee, 1989, Texas Lawyers" Insurance Exchange.
Member, State Bar Grievance Committee, 1973-1977. Participant, Million Dollar Arguments, Professional Techniques Library.
Pattern Jury Charge Committee, 1977-1981, Drafters of Volume 3, Pattern Jury Charge, including Products Liability and Medical Malpractice. Chairman, State Bar Liaison Committee with Texas Medical Association, 1979-1980.
Texas Supreme Court Rules of Evidence Committee that drafted the Texas Code of Evidence.
Texas Supreme Court Committee that drafted the "Texas Lawyers Creed: A Mandate for Professionalism," 1989. Treasurer and Trustee, Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism, 1990-1993. 1996. Member, Advisory Committee, 1996.
Director, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1990-1993.
Member, Joint Committee of Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the Texas Association of Defense Counsel which drafted Professionalism Code adopted by both organizations, 1989. College of the State Bar of Texas, 1992.
Diplomate, American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. Founder, National Board of Trial Advocacy.
Certified Mediator (American Automobile Association).
Member: San Antonio (President, 1982-1983) and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Texas (Director, 1984-1987, President-Elect, 1993-1994, President, 1994-1995). Texas Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1975-1976).
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member: Board of Governors, 1976-1979 and 1981-1982.
Executive Committee, 1978-1979 and 1981-1982). William South. Sessions Inn, American Inns of Court (Master of the Bench, 1986-1992).
San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1973-1974). Founding Member of Texas-Mexico Bar Association, 1994.
Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association.
Catholic Lawyers" Guild. Fifth Circuit Bar Association. Life Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation (Chairman, Board of Trustees, 1989-1990).
American College of Trial Lawyers.
International Society of Barristers. American Board of Trial Advocates (President, San Antonio Chapter, 1990-1991).
American Bar Foundation. Military: United States.A.F.R., Judge Advocate General"s Corps, active duty, 1962-1965, 1968 (Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization).
Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
Jim Branton and Jim Hall have practiced together in San Antonio for seventeen years. Their present firm, a professional corporation, is an outgrowth of two earlier firms in which they were both partners and in which Jim Branton was the senior partner. They have offices at the same location for the entire seventeen years.
The firm has always practiced exclusively civil litigation, predominantly personal injury litigation, and almost exclusively on the plaintiff"s side of the docket.
Their practice is statewide and includes extensive federal litigation in all four federal districts. In 1991, the firm was joined by, the late Justice Franklin South. Spears, following his retirement from the Texas Supreme Court.
(Deceased, 1996).
Member, Executive Committee, 1989, Texas Lawyers" Insurance Exchange. Member, State Bar Grievance Committee, 1973-1977. Participant, Million Dollar Arguments, Professional Techniques Library.
Pattern Jury Charge Committee, 1977-1981, Drafters of Volume 3, Pattern Jury Charge, including Products Liability and Medical Malpractice.
Chairman, State Bar Liaison Committee with Texas Medical Association, 1979-1980. Texas Supreme Court Rules of Evidence Committee that drafted the Texas Code of Evidence.
Texas Supreme Court Committee that drafted the "Texas Lawyers Creed: A Mandate for Professionalism," 1989. Treasurer and Trustee, Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism, 1990-1993.
1996. Member, Advisory Committee, 1996.
Director, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1990-1993. Member, Joint Committee of Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the Texas Association of Defense Counsel which drafted Professionalism Code adopted by both organizations, 1989. College of the State Bar of Texas, 1992.
Diplomate, American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys.
Founder, National Board of Trial Advocacy. Certified Mediator (American Automobile Association).
Member: San Antonio (President, 1982-1983) and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Texas (Director, 1984-1987, President-Elect, 1993-1994, President, 1994-1995).
Texas Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1975-1976).
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member: Board of Governors, 1976-1979 and 1981-1982. Executive Committee, 1978-1979 and 1981-1982). William South. Sessions Inn, American Inns of Court (Master of the Bench, 1986-1992).
San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1973-1974).
Founding Member of Texas-Mexico Bar Association, 1994. Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association.
Catholic Lawyers" Guild. Fifth Circuit Bar Association.
Married Molly Branton, May 18, 1968. Children: Christina, Victoria, Claudia.
