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Lewis R. Sifford is an accomplished trial lawyer with substantial experience in dispute resolution. His practice includes complex commercial litigation as well as catastrophic personal injury and death cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He has tried more than 150 civil jury trials to verdict. He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate and as a Civil Pretrial Practice Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Sifford has served as an arbitrator in complex securities cases and disputes involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices and is an experienced mediator. He served as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at the Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law for 20 years. Mr. Sifford was invited to become a member of the AMERICAN BOARD OF TRIAL ADVOCATES. Membership is by invitation only, and is made up of an equal number of plaintiff and defense attorneys who must have tried at least twenty jury cases to verdict. It is an organization whose purpose is to elevate the standards of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession; to aid in further education and training of trial lawyers; to work for the preservation of our jury system and improve methods of procedure in our present trial court system; to advance the skill of its members as trial attorneys; to honor the members of the Association who have the requisite qualifications; to provide a forum for the expression of interests common to trial lawyers and to act as an agency through which trial lawyers in general and members of the Association in particular shall have a voice with which to speak concerning matters of common and general interest; to establish relations and cooperate with other legal organizations and associations for purposes of promoting efficient administration of justice and constant improvement of the law; and to enable trial lawyers as a group to have an active association of standing in the community and the nation through which they may learn and be heard. Mr. Sifford was invited to become a member of the AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS which is composed of the best of the trial bar from the United States and Canada and is widely considered to be the premier professional trial organization in American. Founded in 1950, the College is dedicated to maintaining and improving the standards of trial practice, the administration of justice and the ethics of the profession. Through its Board of Regents, its general committees and its state and province committees, the College engages in a wide variety of activities to further those purposes. PROFESSIONAL OFFICES HELD: National President, ABOTA, 2007 National President-Elect, ABOTA, 2006 National Vice-President, ABOTA, 2005 National Treasurer, ABOTA, 2002 to 2005 President, ABOTA, Texas Chapter, 1999 Chairman of the Board of Directors, ABOTA, Texas Chapter, 1999 Chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee, National Board of Directors, ABOTA, 1999 National Board Member, ABOTA, 1995 to Present President, ABOTA, Dallas Chapter, 1994.

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