Quentin Brogdon

Top rated Personal Injury attorney in Dallas, Texas

Crain Brogdon, LLP

Practice areas: Personal Injury, Products Liability, Business Litigation

Licensed in Texas since: 1989

Education: University of Houston Law Center

Selected to Super Lawyers: 2003 - 2026

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Crain Brogdon, LLP

4925 Greenville Ave
Suite 1450
Dallas, TX 75206 Phone: 214-598-1009 Email: Quentin Brogdon Visit website

Quentin Brogdon is a Fellow of the invitation-only International Academy of Trial Lawyers, American College of Trial Lawyers (Chair, Texas State Committee), and International Society of Barristers. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in Personal Injury Litigation (Lawyer of Year, Personal Injury Litigation, Plaintiffs, Dallas/Fort Worth 2023), and he is board certified in personal injury trial law and in civil trial advocacy.

He has been a Texas Monthly Super Lawyer every year since its inception, and he has been a Top 3 Texas Monthly Super Lawyer in Texas multiple times. Lawdragon Magazine selected him as a "500 Leading Plaintiffs’ Lawyer in America," and as a "500 Leading Plaintiffs’ Consumer Lawyer in America." The National Trial Lawyers selected him as a Top 100 Texas Trial Lawyer, and D Magazine selected him as one the "Best Lawyers in Dallas."

He served as President of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Dallas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, and the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America. He served on a State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charge Committee, and he has authored over 100 published articles on topics related to personal injury trial law.

The State Bar of Texas awarded him the "Standing Ovation Award" and the Gene Cavin Award for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education, the Texas Bar Foundation awarded him the Dan Rugeley Price Award for "unreserved commitment to clients and to the practice of our profession," the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America awarded him the Thurgood Marshall "Fighting for Justice" Award for "tenacious effort, against overwhelming odds, in achieving success in the fight for justice," and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association awarded him the Don Bowen Award Distinguished Service Award for “meaningful and dedicated service to TTLA that has advanced the organization, its mission, and the civil practice of law.”

He received a B.A. degree from Rice University and a J.D. degree and an M.B.A. degree (with honors) from the University of Houston, where he was an associate editor of the Houston Law Review.

He is AV-Rated Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.

First Admitted: 1989, Texas

Professional Webpage: https://www.crainbrogdon.com/quentin-brogdon/

Bar / Professional Activity

American Inn of Court, "Mac" Taylor Chapter Master, 2004 - Present
American College of Trial Lawyers - Chair, Texas State Committee, 2025
American Board of Trial Advocates - National Executive Committee Member, 2022
Texas Trial Lawyers Association - President, 2022
International Society of Barristers, Fellow, 2020
American College of Trial Lawyers- Fellow (Chair, Texas State Committee), 2025
Dallas Bar Association Courthouse Committee, Co-Chair, 2008 - 2009
Dallas Bar Association, Tort & Insurance Section Director, 2013 - 2014
Texas Trial Lawyers Association, VP Finance & Executive Committee, 2013 - 2014
Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, President, 2018
State Bar Pattern Jury Charge Committee – Business, Consumer & Employment Law, Member, 2006 - 2009
Dallas Bar Association, Trial Skills Section Director, 2014 - Present
Texas Trial Lawyers, Board of Directors, 2001 - Present
Texas Bar Foundation- District 6, Nominating Committee, 2014 - 2017
International Academy of Trial Lawyers - Fellow, 2017
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, Board of Directors, 1999 - Present
Dallas Bar Association Media Relations Committee, Co-Chair, 2011 - 2012
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, President, 2007
American Board of Trial Advocates, Dallas Chapter Executive Committee, 2009 - Present
American Board of Trial Advocates, Dallas Chapter - President, 2017

Special Licenses / Certifications

Board Certified, Civil Trial Advocacy - National Board of Trial Advocacy, 1999
Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law - Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Board Certified, Civil Trial Advocacy - National Board of Trial Advocates., 1997

Pro bono / Community Service

Dallas Food Bank Drive With Dallas Chapter of American Board of Trial Advocates - Dallas Chapter Raised $20,000, 2021
Annual firm contributions of $30,000 to Dallas Volunteer Attorneys Program.

Educational Background

University of Houston, Houston, Texas, M.B.A., 1989 (With Honors)
Rice University, B.A., Major: Economics and History, 1985 (President's Honor Roll)

Scholarly Lectures / Writings

Author, Author, "A Smoking Hot Closing Argument", Texas Lawyer, 2025
Author, Author, "Mental Anguish Damages, Three Years After Gregory v. Chohan", Texas Lawyer, 2026
Author, Author, "Lessons From Lincoln and Churchill", Texas Lawyer, 2026
Author, Author, "Texas High Court Raises Evidence Hurdle in Dram Shop Cases", Texas Lawyer, 2025
Author, Author, "Locating All Sources of Insurance Coverage in Truck Crash Cases", Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, 2025
Author, Author, "Why Storytelling Wins in the Courtroom", Texas Lawyer, 2025
Author, Author, "Standing at a Rubicon on the Rule of Law", Texas Lawyer, 2025
Author, Author, "How Accurately Do Jurors Assess Risks?", Texas Lawyer, 2025
Author, Author, "The Final Nail in Corbin's Coffin in Premises Cases", Texas Lawyer, 2025
Author, Author, "The One Rule to Rule Them All in Jury Trials", Texas Lawyer, 2024
Author, Author, "Texas Supreme Court Lets Drunk Drivers Take the Fifth After Drinking a Fifth", Texas Lawyer, 2024
Author, Author, "The Empathy Deficit in Pajama-Clad Online Jurors", Voir Dire (ABOTA), Fall/Winter 2022, 2022
Author, Author, "Trials and Errors in Personal Injury Trial Law", Texas Lawyer, 2024
Author, Author, "Demonstrative Evidence: Seeing Really is Believing", Texas Lawyer, 2024
Author, Author, “New Rule 702 Raises Hurdles for Experts in Federal Court", Texas Lawyer, 2024
Author, Author, "Nonlawyer Ownership of Law Firms - Coming Soon?", Voir Dire (ABOTA), Fall/Winter 2023), 2024
Author, Author, "When Is Social Media Evidence Admissible?", Texas Lawyer, 2024
Author, Author, "Alas, Poor Civility! I Knew It Well", Texas Lawyer, 2023
Author, Author, "Gregory Raises Damages Questions", Texas Lawyer, 2023
Author, Author, "Criminal Conduct in Civil Cases", Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, 2023
Author, Author, "But Did They Ratify It? Determining Employer Liability For an Employee's Acts", Texas Lawyer, 2023
Author, Author, "Non-Lawyer Ownership of Law Firms -- Coming Soon?", Texas Lawyer, 2023
Author, Author, “Snap Removal Is No Longer a Snap”, Texas Lawyer, 2023
Author, Author, "High Court Puts Cell Phones on Hold", Texas Lawyer, 2023
Author, Author, “The Case Against Mandatory Online Jury Trials in the Time of Corona”, Texas Bar Journal (84 Tex. B.J. 456 (May 2021)), 2021
Author, Author, "State of the Art Expert Discovery Practices", The Advocate, State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, Winter 2022, 2022
Author, Author, "A Closer Look at Limitations in Wrongful Death Cases", Texas Lawyer, 2022
Author, Author, "Dos and Don'ts of Opening Statements", Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, 2022
Author, Author, "When Can Jurors Consider Evidence of Intoxication, Impairment and Mental Health Conditions?", Texas Lawyer, 2022
Author, Author, "Visiting the Sins of Children on Their Parents: Parental Tort Liability", Texas Lawyer, 2022
Author, Author, “The Empathy Deficit in Pajama-Clad Online Jurors”, The Advocate, State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, Spring 2022, 2022
Author, Author, “Forced Arbitration: A Bitter Pill to Swallow”, Texas Lawyer, 2022
Author, Author, "A Primer on Non-Subscribers", Texas Lawyer, 2022
Author, Author, "Lyft Belatedly Releases Troubling Sexual Assault Report", Texas Lawyer, 2021
Author, Author, "Lessons From the Kennedy Assassination About Eyewitness Testimony", Texas Lawyer, 2021
Author, Author, "Employer Liability for an Employee's Assault", Texas Lawyer, 2021
Author, Author, "Cross-Examining Experts Under the New Rules", Texas Lawyer, 2021
Author, Author, "Tesla's Full Self-Driving Capability: Unsafe at Any Speed", Texas Lawyer, 2021
Author, Author, "New Texas Rules Bring More Expedited Trials and Federalization to Personal Injury Cases", Texas Lawyer, 2021
Author, Author, "Truck Driving Could be the Next New Desk Job", Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, "Dram Shop Cases: Rattlesnakes Loose in Shopping Malls", Dallas Bar Association Headnotes, 2020
Author, Author, "Should Democrats Pack the Supreme Court if Biden Wins?", Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, “Collision Avoidance Technology Systems Should Now be Standard Equipment on All Large Trucks”, Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, “Mandatory Online Jury Trials: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come”, Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, "The GOP's COVID-19 Immunity Bill: Unfair, Unnecessary and Unsafe", Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, "Screeching Halt: Lyft and Uber Putting Profits Over Safety of Passengers", Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, "Law in the Time of Corona", Voir Dire (American Board of Trial Advocates), 2020
Author, Author, "Liability When the Uber or Lyft Driver is an Outlaw", Texas Lawyer, 2019
Author, Author, "COVID-19 Lawsuit Immunity: When Nobody is Accountable, Nobody is Safe", Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, "Law in the Time of Corona", Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, "Fifth Circuit Blesses 'Snap Removal' by Out-of-State Defendants", Texas Lawyer, 2020
Author, Author, "Preparing the Plaintiff to Testify", The Advocate, State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, 2020
Author, "My Atticus Finch Moment", Texas Lawyer, 2006
Author, "Time Limits on Voir Dire Trade Justice for Efficiency", Texas Lawyer, 2005
Author, "Factual Sufficiency Review by the Supreme Court", Texas Lawyer, 2005
Author, "The New Good Samaritans: HB 4's Protections for Emergency Medical Care", Texas Lawyer, 2004
Author, "Why do Jurors Blame the Victim?", Trial Magazine (39 Trial 52), 2003
Author, "Palacios and Article 4590i Expert Reports: Trying to Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear", Texas Bar Journal (65 Tex. B.J. 512), 2002
Author, "A Reply to a Flawed Defense of Sponsorship Theory", Texas Bar Journal (63 Tex. B.J. 756), 2000
Author, "Inoculating Against Bad Facts: Brilliant Trial Strategy or Misguided Dogma?", Texas Bar Journal (63 Tex. B.J. 443), 2000
Author, "Admissibility of Criminal Convictions in Civil Cases", Texas Bar Journal (61 Tex. B.J. 1112), 1998
Author, "Non-Subscriber Liability for Employee Injuries: Foreseeability is in the Eye of the Employee?", Texas Bar Journal (60 Tex. B.J. 628), 1997
Author, "Hurdles for Premises Liability", Texas Lawyer, 2015
Author, "Information Acted On Is Not Hearsay", Texas Lawyer, 2014
Speaker at Over 200 Legal Seminars on Topics Related to Personal Injury Trial Law, Speaker, 1998
Author, "The Foundations of Effective Cross-Examination", American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Committee Newsletter, 101 Practice Series Article, Summer 2014, Vol. 1 No. 2, 2014
Author, "Parallel Criminal and Civil Cases: Which Goes First?", Texas Lawyer, 2015
Author, “When is Enough Enough? How to Prove Causation With Temporal Proximity and Lay Testimony”, Texas Lawyer, 2014
Author, "New Approach to Prior Inconsistent Statements", Texas Lawyer, 2015
Author, "How to Win Wrongful-Death, Survival Damages", Texas Lawyer, 2014
Author, "The Unlawful Acts Doctrine in Texas: Dead or Alive?", Texas Lawyer, 2015
Author, "Personal Injury: Stowers and Multiple Defendants", Texas Lawyer, 2013
Author, "Phantom Defendants: Responsible Third Parties", Texas Lawyer, 2015
Author, "Maximize the Effectiveness of Opening Argument", Texas Lawyer, 2013
Author, "Clearing a Hurdle in Bystander Cases", Texas Lawyer, 2014
Author, "Admissibility of Other Similar Incidents in Civil Litigation", Texas Lawyer, 2013
Author, "Experts and Inadmissible Underlying Data", Texas Lawyer, 2015
Author, "Innocent-Retailer Protection, Jurisdiction and Removal", Texas Lawyer, 2013
Author, "Impact of Convictions in Civil Trials", Texas Lawyer, 2015
Author, "How to Break Down Issues in Component-Parts Cases", Texas Lawyer, 2013
Author, "Understanding the Dram Shop Act's Safe Harbor", Texas Lawyer, 2013
Author, "The Collateral Source Rule's Exception", Texas Lawyer, 2015
Author, "Fear of Commitment Questions in Voir Dire", Texas Lawyer, 2012
Author, "New Day in Federal Civil Procedure", Texas Lawyer, 2016
Author, "What Attorneys Can't Say In Closing Arguments", Texas Lawyer, 2012
Author, "Five Ways to Impeach a Witness", Texas Lawyer, 2016
Author, "How to Handle Physical and Mental Examinations", Texas Lawyer, 2012
Author, "13 Must-Ask Questions Before Enlisting an Expert Witness", Texas Lawyer, 2016
Author, "Objecting to the Admission of Harmful Evidence", Texas Lawyer, 2012
Author, "Holding Trucking Companies Directly Liable", Texas Lawyer, 2016
Author, "Tactical Considerations in Depositions", Texas Lawyer, 2012
Author, "Joint and Several Liability for Indivisible Injuries", Texas Lawyer, 2017
Author, "Deposition Strategies in State and Federal Court", Texas Lawyer, 2012
Author, "Buckle Up: Seat Belt Evidence Now Admissible", Texas Lawyer, 2017
Author, "Overcome Fear Factor in Adverse Expert Cross-Examination", Texas Lawyer, 2011
Author, "Setting the Table in Catastrophic Truck Crash Cases", Texas Lawyer, 2017
Author, "When an Autonomous Vehicle Crashes, Who Pays for Damages?", Texas Lawyer, 2018
Author, "Seven Deadly Myths of Cross-Examination", Texas Lawyer, 2011
Author, "Think Strategy in a Post-H.B. 274 World", Texas Lawyer, 2011
Author, "Questions to Ask Police Officers in Car Wreck Cases", Texas Lawyer, 2011
Author, "Set-Aside Scuffles", Texas Lawyer, 2010
Author, "Trial Lawyer as Secret Agent: Techniques Litigators Can Learn From Spies and Detectives", Texas Lawyer, 2010

Honors

Super Lawyers - Top 3 Lawyer in State of Texas, Super Lawyers, 2025
Gene Cavin Award for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education, State Bar of Texas, 2025
Award for “meaningful and dedicated service to TTLA that has advanced the organization, its mission, and the civil practice of law.”, Don Bowen Distinguished Service Award, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, 2024
"Unreserved Commitment to Clients and to the Profession", Dan Rugeley Price Award - "Unreserved Commitment to Clients and to the Profession", Texas Bar Foundation - State Bar of Texas, 2023
Super Lawyers - Top 3 Lawyer in State of Texas, Super Lawyers, 2024
Super Lawyers - Top 10 Lawyer in State of Texas, Super Lawyers, 2023
Lawyer of the Year - Plaintiff's Personal Injury - Dallas/Fort Worth, The Best Lawyers in America, 2022
Lawdragon Magazine 500 Leading Plaintiffs' Consumer Lawyers in America, 2019-present, Lawdragon Magazine 500 Leading Plaintiffs' Consumer Lawyers in America, 2019-present, Lawdragon Magazine, 2019
D Magazine "Best Lawyers in Dallas", 2014-Present, D Magazine "Best Lawyers in Dallas", 2014-Present, D Magazine, 2014
Top 100 Texas Trial Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers, 2011-Present, Top 100 Texas Trial Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers, 2011-Present, The National Trial Lawyers, 2011
Texas Monthly Super Lawyer, 2003-Present, Super Lawyers, 2003
Presidential Citation, Bench Bar Conference, Dallas Bar Association, 2017
AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell, 1999-Present, AV-Rated Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell, 1999-Present, Martindale-Hubbell, 1999
The National Association of Distinguished Counsel, 2014-Present, The National Association of Distinguished Counsel, 2014-Present, The National Association of Distinguished Counsel, 2014
Top 100 Texas Monthly Super Lawyers in Texas, 2013-Present, Top 100 Texas Monthly Super Lawyers in Texas, 2013-Present, Super Lawyers, 2013
Thurgood Marshall Fighting for Justice Award, Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, 2018
The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, 2014 - Present, The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, 2014 - Present, Best Lawyers in America, 2014
Nation's Top One Percent, 2015 - Present, Nation's Top One Percent, 2015 - Present, Nation's Top One Percent, 2015
Lawdragon Magazine 500 Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America, 2007-present, Lawdragon Magazine 500 Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America, 2007-present, Lawdragon Magazine
Standing Ovation Award, State Bar of Texas CLE Program, 2017