Background
Khan Merritt, Tahira was born on July 27, 1964 in Guyana, South America.
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Tahira Khan Merritt
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University of Texas (Bachelor of Arts, with honors, 1985). Baylor University (Juris Doctor, 1988). Spoken languages: Latin, Greek and French.
Career
Worked at Merritt & Merritt (Dallas, Texas) specializing in Legal Malpractice and Inadequate Premises Security Litigation, Negligence, Commercial Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1989, Texas, United States. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit.
United States.
District Court, Northern District of Texas. Phi Delta Phi. Company-Author: "Texas Motion Practice Handbook," Knowles Publishing, Copyright 1995 (2 volumes), 1200 pages. "Rule 165a Dismissal for Want of Prosecution," 60 Tex.Bar.J. Volume 6 p.
555-560 (June 1997).
Member: Dallas and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Texas; Dallas Association of Young Lawyers. Texas Trial Lawyers Association.
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association (Director, 1993). Merritt & Merritt is comprised of the husband and wife team of Martin Randal Merritt and Tahira Khan Merritt.
Mr. Merritt is a board certified personal injury trial law specialist who practices principally in the area of plaintiffs" legal malpractice litigation.
He founded the firm in 1992 after serving five years as head of litigation for a Dallas firm specializing in personal injury litigation. Mr. Merritt regularly serves as a consultant to attorneys across the state and nationwide.
He serves as special disciplinary counsel for the State Bar of Texas. Tahira Khan Merritt is a former assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas who joined the firm as a partner in 1996 after serving for five years as an associate attorney in the negligence section of the Law Offices of Windle Turley, Professional Corporation Mistress
Merritt concentrates in the area of inadequate and negligent premises security litigation, sexual assault and sex crime litigation and automobile negligence litigation.
Mr. & Mistress Merritt are co-authors of the two-volume Treatise, Texas Motion Practice Handbook, Copyright Knowles Publishing Company, 1200pp., 1995.
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Member: Dallas and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Texas; Dallas Association of Young Lawyers. Texas Trial Lawyers Association.
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association (Director, 1993).
