ABOUT

Brian Rawson is an associate in the Dallas office of Hartline, Dacus, Barger, Dreyer & Kern, L.L.P. Before joining HDBDK in 2003, he interned at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office during the last two years of law school. At the DA’s Office, he assisted Assistant District Attorneys in jury selection for dozens of felony cases, all of which ultimately returned guilty verdicts. While attending SMU Dedman School of Law, he was one of the 10 selected from his class as a Best Brief Nominee for the SMU Moot Court Competition and was a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Honors Fraternity and the Mac Taylor Inn of Court litigation club.

Mr. Rawson is now a trial attorney who focuses on product liability litigation for domestic and international automotive manufacturers. He has repeatedly defended catastrophic injury and death claims involving airbags, restraint systems, roof crush, glazing, fuel systems, ball joint separation, handling and stability, rollover occupant protection systems, ESC, and overall vehicle crashworthiness. In defending these allegations on many occasions, Mr. Rawson has acquired expertise in vehicle components and technology that allows him to effectively evaluate and defend automotive product liability cases. His practice also includes defending clients in premises liability, pharmaceutical product liability, and asbestos, silicosis, and other toxic tort cases. Mr. Rawson regularly appears in both state and federal courts, and his experience includes work at the trial level.

CASE EXPERIENCE

• Successfully obtained a unanimous defense verdict in a Toyota 4Runner rollover death case in 2007.
  
• Regularly represents Toyota, Mitsubishi, and General Motors in complex product liability cases.
  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Defense Research Institute
State Bar of Texas
Dallas Bar Association

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