Quentin Brogdon

Cell: (214) 598-1009
Email: Qbrogdon@crainbrogdon.com

Practice Areas:

• Wrongful Death
• Truck Accidents
• Vehicle Accidents
• Product Liability
• Premises Liability
• Dram Shop
• Civil Liability for Criminal Acts

VIDEO: Get To Know Quentin

Years of experience: Practicing since 1989
Serving: Dallas, Texas
Areas of practice: Wrongful death, truck accidents, car accidents, product liability, premises liability, dram shop, civil liability for criminal acts
Top honors: Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” (2023); Number One Super Lawyer in Texas (2026); Texas Monthly Top 3 Super Lawyers in Texas (2024, 2025)

Quentin Brogdon is a board certified personal injury trial lawyer and partner at Crain Brogdon, LLP in Dallas, Texas. He has represented injured people and families since 1989, handling wrongful death, truck accident, car accident, product liability, premises liability and dram shop cases. He is a Fellow of three trial lawyer organizations that admit members by invitation only: the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers.

“Once in a while, you get to fix a wrong. You get to right a wrong. You get to make a real change in somebody’s life. And when that happens, it makes all the other long hours and all the other frustrations worthwhile. That’s why I get up every morning to practice law.”

– Quentin Brogdon

What kinds of cases does Quentin Brogdon handle?

Quentin represents plaintiffs in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, including:

• Wrongful death
• Commercial truck and big rig accidents
• Car and other motor vehicle accidents
• Product liability
• Premises liability
• Dram shop liability
• Civil liability for criminal acts

What makes Quentin Brogdon’s trial experience stand out?

Quentin is board certified in both Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Advocacy.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, where he serves as Vice-Chair of the Texas State Committee. He is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers.

What leadership roles has Quentin held?

Quentin has served as president of four trial lawyer organizations:

• President, Texas Trial Lawyers Association (2022)
• President, Dallas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) (2017)
• President, Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (APITLA) (2018 to 2019)
• President, Dallas Trial Lawyers Association (2007 to 2008)

He served on ABOTA’s National Executive Committee in 2022. From 2007 to 2009 he served on the State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charges Committee for Business, Consumer and Employment Law, which writes the jury instructions Texas courts use.

What awards and honors has Quentin Brogdon received?

Rankings

• The Best Lawyers in America, “Lawyer of the Year,” Personal Injury Litigation (Plaintiffs), Dallas/Fort Worth, 2023
• The Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Litigation, 2014 to present
• Texas Monthly Super Lawyers, Ranked #1, 2026
• Texas Monthly Super Lawyers, Top 3 in Texas, 2024 and 2025
• Texas Monthly Super Lawyers, Top 10 in Texas, 2023
• Texas Monthly Super Lawyers, Top 100 in Texas, 2013 to present
• Texas Monthly Super Lawyer, 2003 to present
• The National Trial Lawyers, Top 100 Texas Trial Lawyers, 2011 to present
• D Magazine, Best Lawyers in Dallas, 2014 to present
• Lawdragon, 500 Leading Plaintiffs’ Consumer Lawyers in America, 2019 and 2026
• Lawdragon, 500 Leading Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in America, 2007

Professional awards

• Gene Cavin Award for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education, State Bar of Texas, 2025
• Don Bowen Distinguished Service Award, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, 2024. Given for “meaningful and dedicated service to TTLA that advanced the organization, its mission, and the civil practice of law.”
• Dan Rugeley Price Award, Texas Bar Foundation, 2023. Given for “unreserved commitment to clients and to the practice of our profession.”
• Thurgood Marshall “Fighting for Justice” Award, APITLA, 2018. Given for “tenacious effort, against overwhelming odds, in achieving success in the fight for justice.”
• Presidential Citation, Dallas Bar Association, 2017
• Standing Ovation Award, State Bar of Texas CLE Program
• “Tort Legend,” Dallas Bar Association, 2026
• Civility Award, American Board of Trial Advocates, Dallas Chapter, 2026

Quentin is also AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Does Quentin write and teach about trial law?

Yes. Quentin has written over 100 published articles on personal injury trial law. Many appeared in his regular Texas Lawyer column, and others ran in the Texas Bar Journal, The Advocate and ABOTA’s Voir Dire. His topics include truck crash litigation, rideshare safety, autonomous vehicles, expert witnesses and jury behavior.

He has taught trial skills to other lawyers for more than two decades:

• SMU Dedman School of Law: Visiting Lecturer, Expert Witness Course (2018 to present); Adjunct Professor, Trial Advocacy (2002)
• National Institute for Trial Advocacy: Instructor, Depositions College, Dallas (2012 to 2013)
• Dallas Bar Association Trial Academy: Instructor (2014 to 2016)
• ABOTA Dallas Trial Lawyer Academy: Instructor (2016)
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association Trial Advocacy College: Instructor (2009)

He also presents continuing legal education programs for the University of Texas Law CLE Program and the State Bar of Texas.

Education

• J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 1989 (Associate Editor, Houston Law Review)
• M.B.A. with honors, University of Houston, 1989
• B.A. in Economics and History, Rice University, 1985 (President’s Honor Roll)

Bar admissions

• State Bar of Texas, 1989
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
• U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas

Professional associations

• International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
• American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow (Vice-Chair, Texas State Committee)
• International Society of Barristers, Fellow
• American Board of Trial Advocates: Dallas Chapter President (2017); National Executive Committee (2022)
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association: President (2022); Vice President of Finance (2013 to 2014); Director and Fellowship Member
• Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, President (2018 to 2019)
• Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, President (2007 to 2008)
• State Bar of Texas, Pattern Jury Charges Committee: Business, Consumer and Employment Law (2007 to 2009)
• Dallas Bar Association: Bench Bar Conference Cochair (2017); Trial Skills Section Treasurer (2017) and Director (2014); Tort and Insurance Section Director (2012); Media Relations Committee Cochair (2012); Working Group for Revisions to Local Rules Cochair (2010 to 2011); Courthouse Committee Cochair (2008)
• American Inns of Court, The William “Mac” Taylor Chapter, Master
• Texas Bar Foundation: Life Fellow; District 6 Nominating Committee
• American Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Dallas Bar Foundation, Fellow
• 360 Advocacy Institute, Advisory Committee
• Texas Bar College
• American Association for Justice

Published works

2026

• “Justice Prevailed in My First Jury Trial … I Lost,” Texas Lawyer, September 2026
• “Failing to Fully Open in Closing Argument: A Trap for the Unwary Plaintiff,” Texas Lawyer, July 2026
• “The U.K.’s Push to Abolish Jury Trials is a Cautionary Tale for the U.S.,” Texas Lawyer, May 2026
• “Mental Anguish Damages, Three Years After Gregory v. Chohan,” Texas Lawyer, March 2026
• “Lessons From Lincoln and Churchill,” Texas Lawyer, January 2026

2025

• “A Smoking Hot Closing Argument,” Texas Lawyer, November 2025
• “Locating All Sources of Insurance Coverage in Truck Crash Cases,” Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, October 2025
• “Texas High Court Raises Evidence Hurdle in Dram Shop Cases,” Texas Lawyer, September 2025
• “Why Storytelling Wins in the Courtroom,” Texas Lawyer, June 2025
• “Standing at a Rubicon on the Rule of Law,” Texas Lawyer, April 2025; Voir Dire (ABOTA), Spring/Summer 2025
• “How Accurately Do Jurors Assess Risk?” Texas Lawyer, March 2025
• “The Final Nail in Corbin’s Coffin in Premises Cases,” Texas Lawyer, January 2025

2024

• “The One Rule to Rule Them All in Jury Trials,” Texas Lawyer, December 2024
• “Texas Supreme Court Lets Drunk Drivers Take the Fifth After Drinking a Fifth,” Texas Lawyer, October 2024
• “Trials and Errors in Personal Injury Trial Law,” Texas Lawyer, September 2024
• “Demonstrative Evidence: Seeing Really is Believing,” Texas Lawyer, August 2024

2023

• “Nonlawyer Ownership of Law Firms: Coming Soon?” Voir Dire (ABOTA), Fall/Winter 2023; Texas Lawyer, June 2023
• “When Is Social Media Evidence Admissible?” Texas Lawyer, November 2023
• “Alas, Poor Civility! I Knew It Well,” Texas Lawyer, November 2023
• “Gregory Raises Damages Questions,” Texas Lawyer, November/December 2023
• “Criminal Conduct in Civil Cases,” Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, September 2023
• “But Did They Ratify It? Determining Employer Liability for an Employee’s Acts,” Texas Lawyer, July/August 2023
• “Snap Removal is No Longer a Snap,” Texas Lawyer, May/June 2023
• “High Court Puts Cell Phones on Hold,” Texas Lawyer, March/April 2023

2022

• “State of the Art Expert Discovery Practices,” The Advocate, State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, Winter 2022
• “The Empathy Deficit in Pajama-Clad Online Jurors,” Voir Dire (ABOTA), Fall/Winter 2022; The Advocate, Spring 2022
• “A Closer Look at Limitations in Wrongful Death Cases,” Texas Lawyer, October 2022
• “Dos and Don’ts of Opening Statements,” Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, September 2022
• “When Can Jurors Consider Evidence of Intoxication, Impairment and Mental Health Conditions?” Texas Lawyer, June 2022
• “Visiting the Sins of Children on Their Parents: Parental Tort Liability,” Texas Lawyer, May 2022
• “Forced Arbitration: A Bitter Pill to Swallow,” Texas Lawyer, March 2022
• “A Primer on Non-Subscribers,” Texas Lawyer, January 2022

2021

• “Lyft Belatedly Releases Troubling Sexual Assault Report,” Texas Lawyer, November 2021
• “Lessons From the Kennedy Assassination About Eyewitness Testimony,” Texas Lawyer, September 2021
• “Employer Liability for an Employee’s Assault,” Texas Lawyer, July 2021
• “Cross-Examining Experts Under the New Rules,” Texas Lawyer, May 2021
• “The Case Against Mandatory Online Jury Trials in the Time of Corona,” 84 Tex. B.J. 456, May 2021
• “Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Capability: Unsafe at Any Speed,” Texas Lawyer, March 2021
• “New Texas Rules Bring More Expedited Trials and Federalization to Personal Injury Cases,” Texas Lawyer, January 2021

2020

• “Dram Shop Cases: Rattlesnakes Loose in Shopping Malls,” Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, December 2020
• “Should Democrats Pack the Supreme Court if Biden Wins?” Texas Lawyer, October 2020
• “Collision Avoidance Technology Systems Should Now be Standard Equipment on All Large Trucks,” Texas Lawyer, September 2020
• “Mandatory Online Jury Trials: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come,” Texas Lawyer, August 2020
• “The GOP’s COVID-19 Immunity Bill: Unfair, Unnecessary and Unsafe,” Texas Lawyer, August 2020
• “Screeching Halt: Lyft and Uber Putting Profits Over Safety of Passengers,” Texas Lawyer, July 2020
• “Truck Driving Could be the Next New Desk Job,” Texas Lawyer, July 2020
• “COVID-19 Lawsuit Immunity: When Nobody is Accountable Nobody is Safe,” Texas Lawyer, June 2020
• “Law in the Time of Corona,” Voir Dire (ABOTA), Spring/Summer 2020; Texas Lawyer, May 2020
• “Fifth Circuit Blesses ‘Snap Removal’ by Out-of-State Defendants,” Texas Lawyer, May 2020
• “Preparing the Plaintiff to Testify,” The Advocate, State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, Spring 2020

2015 to 2019

• “Liability When the Uber or Lyft Driver is an Outlaw,” Texas Lawyer, December 2019
• “When an Autonomous Vehicle Crashes, Who Pays for Damages?” Texas Lawyer, 2018
• “Setting the Table in Catastrophic Truck Crash Cases,” Texas Lawyer, 2017
• “Buckle Up: Seat Belt Evidence Now Admissible,” Texas Lawyer, 2017
• “Joint and Several Liability for Indivisible Injuries,” Texas Lawyer, 2017
• “Holding Trucking Companies Directly Liable,” Texas Lawyer, 2016
• “13 Must-Ask Questions Before Enlisting an Expert Witness,” Texas Lawyer, 2016
• “Top 6 Fundamentals of Voir Dire” (with Rob Crain), Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, 2016
• “Five Ways to Impeach a Witness,” Texas Lawyer, 2016
• “New Day in Federal Civil Procedure,” Texas Lawyer, 2016
• “Impact of Convictions in Civil Trials,” Texas Lawyer, 2015
• “The Collateral Source Rule’s Exception,” Texas Lawyer, 2015
• “Experts and Inadmissible Underlying Data,” Texas Lawyer, 2015
• “Hurdles for Premise Liability,” Texas Lawyer, 2015
• “Parallel Criminal and Civil Cases: Which Goes First?” Texas Lawyer, 2015
• “New Approach to Prior Inconsistent Statements,” Texas Lawyer, 2015
• “The Unlawful Acts Doctrine in Texas: Dead or Alive?” Texas Lawyer, 2015

Webcasts and podcasts

• “Autonomous Vehicles: No Longer the Stuff of Science Fiction,” University of Texas Law CLE Program, July 10, 2020
• “Character Evidence and Evidence of Previous Crimes,” University of Texas Law CLE Program, June 12, 2020
• “Parallel Civil and Criminal Proceedings,” University of Texas Law CLE Program, June 12, 2020
• “Opening Statements and Closing Arguments,” University of Texas Law CLE Program, May 15, 2020
• “Coronavirus Goes to Court,” University of Texas Law CLE Program, May 15, 2020
• “Bad Facts: Making Lemonade From Lemons?” (with Kellye Raymond), State Bar of Texas, April 21, 2020
• “Why Do Jurors Blame the Victim?” (with Kellye Raymond), State Bar of Texas, February 28, 2020
• Podcast: “Autonomous Vehicles” (with Rocky Dhir and Ronald Hedges), State Bar of Texas, February 27, 2020

Publications