ABOUT

Wendy D. May is partner in the Dallas office of Hartline, Dacus, Barger, Dreyer & Kern, L.L.P., where she started her career after graduating from law school in 1996. Her practice includes representation of major automobile and tire manufacturers and suppliers, fall protection equipment manufacturers, petrochemical manufacturers and suppliers, and premises owners up to and through trial. She acts as national and regional counsel for her clients, serving as counsel to date in at least 41 different states. She has repeatedly defended catastrophic injury and death claims involving numerous defect allegations, including vehicle seats, seat belts, air bags, tires, window glazing, roof structure, child seats, general structural integrity and crashworthiness. She has also successfully represented manufacturers and suppliers in toxic exposure and product recall cases. Her repeated defense of these allegations and study of related technical and medical documentation has given her expertise in numerous vehicle components and petrochemicals as well as in injury mechanisms and occupant kinematics. Her base of technical knowledge has and continues to help her successfully and efficiently defend her clients. Mrs. May grew up in Ft. Worth, Texas and now lives in a suburb of Dallas with her husband and three children.

CASE EXPERIENCE

• Successfully obtained defense verdicts for manufacturers in numerous multi-million dollar product liability cases from 1998 to the present.
  
• Organized and managed several large scale document review projects for clients to formulate detailed technical defenses for repeat product liability litigation.
  
• Obtained several summary judgments for manufacturers on a variety of legal grounds, including federal preemption, absence of product, and lack of competent defect or injury causation evidence.
  
• As both national and regional counsel, prepared and presented numerous corporate representatives for depositions and trial.
  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

State Bar of Texas
American Bar Association
Dallas Bar Association
Defense Research Institute

NOTEWORTHY

Nominated as Texas Young Super Lawyer

Served as visiting lecturer for product liability portion of Tort Law class at Southern Methodist School of Law

Judiciary clerkship for federal Judge Walter Smith in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division

Enjoys travel, reading and outdoor activities

Named a Rising Star in the 2006 Texas Super Lawyers – Rising Star Edition