Paula Sweeney
Partner at Slack Davis Sanger LLP
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Paula Sweeney, former founding partner at Howie & Sweeney, currently works in the Dallas office of Slack Davis Sanger L.L.P. and handles serious injury and death cases arising from medical and hospital negligence, defective medical devices and prescription drugs and products liability. She is an AV ®-rated attorney (Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings) and has been Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law since 1986. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and has been a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. She is Past President of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association (1998), the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association (1991), and ABOTA-Dallas (2000) and previously served as a Governor of The Association of Trial Lawyers of America and on the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas. She served for 15 years on the Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee and has also served on the Supreme Court Task Force on Medical Malpractice Discovery and the Supreme Court Task Force on The Jury Charge. Honors include: Recognition as a Champion of Justice by Texas Watch in 2020 for her role in protecting the 7th Amendment and as an advocate for her clients, recognition in 2013 by the Dallas Bar Association as its Trial Lawyer of the Year, being named a Legend of Trial Law by the DBA in 2012, Texas Nurses’ Association Health Care Professional of the Year award, Alumna of Distinction from the University of Dallas, D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas, every year since 2001, Texas Monthly’s Super Lawyers every year since 2003, and Texas Lawyers’ “Extraordinary Women in Texas Law” (2008) and Top 50 Women Lawyers in Texas (2009) and Best Lawyers in America (since 1995). In 2009 she was awarded the State Bar of Texas’ prestigious Gene Cavin Award for lifetime achievement in supporting Continuing Legal Education in Texas.
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