Joe Michael Dodson
Member
Email: mike@dodson-law.com

The founding shareholder of Dodson Law Offices, P.C., Mike Dodson, has been recognized by LAW & POLITICS and the publishers of TEXAS MONTHLY MAGAZINE as a TEXAS SUPER LAWYER since 2006, in the areas of Civil Defense Litigation, Personal Injury Defense, and Business Litigation. He is an experienced trial attorney with over 20 years of litigation experience, and has developed a reputation of being committed to the successful defense of his clients involved in major litigation. Rated as an AV attorney, he has an established reputation in the legal community for professionalism and high ethical conduct. He has successfully defended clients in serious personal injury and complex products liability cases, and is recognized for his extensive and successful trial and appellate work in the silicosis litigation.

Mike Dodson was born December 19, 1956, in Abilene, Texas.  He received his BA in Government from Lamar University in 1979.  He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston Law School in 1981, where he served as research staff editor on the Houston Law Review.  He is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law.  He is also trained and qualified as a mediator.  He is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. 

Mike Dodson's knowledge, skill and experience as a successful defense attorney is well recognized in the toxic tort litigation, as well as general litigation defense of complex cases. Among his presentations at seminars and litigation conferences are the following papers:

"The Sophisticated User Defense and Duty to Warn:  Current Issues After Humble Sand vs. Gomez," presented at the University of Houston Law Foundation Toxic Torts CLE 2005, June 10 & 17, 2005, Houston and Dallas, TX

"Employer Responsibility and the Sophisticated User/Learned Intermediary Defense in Silicosis Cases.  Harris Martin, Silica Litigation 101, Houston, TX, February 4, 2005

"The Sophisticated User Defense in Silica Cases After Humble Sand & Gravel, Inc. v. Gomez," Mealey's Silica Litigation Conference, New Orleans, LA, October 26, 2004

"The Sophisticated User Defense in Silica Cases," Harris Martin Silica Litigation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, September 29, 2003

"Texas Tort Claims Act & The Potential Liability of School Nurses," presented to Beaumont Independent School District, Beaumont, TX, August 11, 2003

"The Defense of the Silica Sand Supplier," Mealey's Silica Conference, Boston MA, April 8, 2003

Practice Areas: Trial Practice; Appellate Practice; Personal Injury and Civil Trial; Toxic Torts; Products Liability; Premises Liability; First Party Insurance Claims; Insurance Bad Faith; Mediations.

Admitted: 1982, Texas; 2007 Louisiana.  Also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court

Law School: University of Houston, J.D., 1981

College: Lamar University, B.A., 1979

Member: Jefferson County and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Texas Association of Defense Counsel.

Biography: Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi. Editor/Research Staff, University of Houston Law Review, 1981. Mediator Training: University of Houston, 1998; Jefferson County Dispute Resolution Center, 1999. (Board Certified, Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization)

Born: Abilene, Texas, December 19, 1956