ERIC PORTERFIELD
eporterfield@leebrownlaw.com

Mr. Porterfield’s practice focuses on personal injury, including product liability. Mr. Porterfield’s practice also includes health care and business litigation in both state and federal courts. He has represented individuals as well as a range of companies as plaintiff or defendant in commercial cases. He has also represented health care professionals in licensure actions.

Mr. Porterfield earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and German from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, where he graduated with highest honors and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Baylor Law School in 2004, where he was Valedictorian, graduated summa cum laude, was Managing Editor of the Texas Practice Edition of the Baylor Law Review, and successfully competed for Baylor Law School in mock trial, including the 2004 ATLA Regional Champion & National Semi-Finalist and 2003 NACDL Tournament Champion and Best Advocate Overall.

Mr. Porterfield was admitted to practice in Texas in 2004 and is admitted to all four federal district courts in Texas as well as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. After law school, Mr. Porterfield clerked for The Honorable David C. Godbey, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division from September 2004 to September 2005. After his clerkship, he joined the litigation firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP, where he worked in product liability, medical and other professional malpractice, and commercial litigation. He joined the Brown Law Firm in the fall of 2009 to focus on personal injury, particularly product liability cases.

Mr. Porterfield serves on the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Wind Symphony and as co-chair of the Board’s Governance Committee. He also enjoys serving the community through participation as a pro bono attorney in the Dallas Volunteer Attorney program.

Recent Representative Matters:

Won $4.5 Million judgment as part of a trial team in a three week jury trial in Dallas County against a car manufacturer for a defective airbag;

Successfully defended two nurses before the Board of Nursing who were the subject of retaliatory complaints by a physician who had been reported to the Board of Medical Examiners;

Won plaintiffs’ judgments after two separate trials against former employees of a trucking company for defrauding the company.

Publications:

Co-Author, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009:
A Perspective for the Health Care Industry (March 2009).

What the Law Giveth, the Law Taketh Away: Securities Litigation and the Jury of the 21st Century, Voir Dire Magazine (2004 Summer Special Edition of ABOTA’s Magazine) (with Prof. Larry Bates, et al.).

Eleventh Amendment Immunity After Lapides v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia: Keeping States Out of Federal Court, 55 Baylor L. Rev. 1243 (2003).