| Tom Cowart |
Tom began his legal career on the staff of the Texas Court of Appeals for the Tenth Court of Appeals District, which sits in Waco. All total, Tom spent four years on the staff of the Waco Court of Appeals. In 2000, he moved to Dallas to take the Turley Law Firm’s appellate and litigation support associate position. In that position, Tom handled all of the Turley Law Firm’s appellate docket, assisted the firm’s trial lawyers with their significant motions practice, and generally served as a resource for the firm’s lawyers in positioning their cases to obtain the greatest recovery possible for their client and to limit or defeat any legal defenses asserted against those claims. Although Tom was initially devoted almost exclusively to the Turley Law Firm’s docket he has since expanded his practice to assist attorneys outside of the Firm. Tom is Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He first earned this certification in 1998 and was re-certified in 2003. During his private practice career, he has been the lead attorney in well over 50 appellate matters, including both state and federal appeals and state and federal mandamus proceedings. He has argued before the Texas Supreme Court on two occasions, multiple times in the Fifth Circuit, and many, many times before various Texas intermediate courts of appeals. Tom is active in a variety of professional capacities. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas District 6A Grievance Committee, serving as committee chairman in the 2006-2007 bar year. He served for two years as Treasurer of the Collin County Bar Association and currently is the Board Secretary. He is currently serving as the Treasurer of the Dallas Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Section. He is also on the editorial board of The Advocate, the quarterly report of the State Bar of Texas Litigation Section, the largest of the State Bar’s sections. Tom is a veteran of the United States Army. On active duty he served as a 107 mm mortar crewman with the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas. After being discharged from active duty, he served as a communications equipment repairman in the Army Reserves with the 420th Engineer Brigade in Bryan, Texas. |
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Tom Cowart
is an affiliate of the Turley Law Firm specializing in providing appellate
and litigation support services for attorneys both within the Turley Law
Firm and attorneys outside of the firm. Although he is a native of New
Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from high school at the International
School of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Tom claims to be a naturalized Texan
by virtue of his economics undergraduate degree from Texas A&M
University. He earned his law degree at another Texas public university,
the University of Houston, graduating cum laude in 1993. While at the
University of Houston, he also earned a Master of Arts in Economics. 
