A Corpus Christi native, David Harris received his Bachelors Degree from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. He attended law school at South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas where he excelled in the area of trial advocacy, earning spots on the law school's national trial and appellate advocacy teams.
Mr. Harris joined Sico, White, Hoelscher & Braugh in January of 2007. Mr. Harris is a zealous trial advocate, and obtained over $11,000,000 in jury verdicts benefiting his clients in his first nine months alone with the firm. His practice includes a wide variety of catastrophic personal injury and death cases involving automotive and tire product defect litigation, commercial trucking litigation, refinery and workplace accidents, and oil and gas litigation. In the area of automotive defect litigation, Mr. Harris has placed a special emphasis on the development and implementation of critical vehicle safety systems to protect human life. Mr. Harris is a staunch advocate for making safety devices standard equipment on vehicles and has published papers exposing the history of the automotive industry's knowledge of the life-saving potential of safety systems for years before offering consumers advanced safety technology.
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Mr. Harris was awarded a $5,250,000 jury verdict in Jim Wells County in Oscar Perez v. Garcia Holiday Tours, where he represented a group of high school students and a chaperone who contracted tuberculosis after being exposed to the deadly disease by a commercial charter bus driver. Mr. Harris strongly believes that the protection of our children is non-negotiable. In the area of commercial trucking negligence, Mr. Harris tried to verdict the case of Walter Browning v. Colonial Freight Systems, Inc., a case in which the state trooper who investigated the accident blamed his client, the victim, for the collision. After three hours of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict for $6,000,000 for his client, holding the trucking company one hundred percent liable for his client's permanent and disabling injuries.
In December of 2010, Mr. Harris' trial team was awarded a verdict in the amount of $124,546,732.89 in Robert Pacheco v. Los Paisanos Autobuses, Inc. The jury unanimously found the Defendants were responsible for a crash on Highway 76 near Denver that took the lives of two passengers and injured five others. This has been recorded as the largest personal injury jury verdict in El Paso's history.
In 2011, Mr. Harris was selected as a Super Lawyer Rising Star, a distinction limited to 2.5% of the attorneys within the State of Texas. Mr. Harris maintains a national catastrophic injury practice focusing on product liability litigation. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the American Bar Association, the Corpus Christi Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association where he serves on the Board of Advocates. He is also an advocate for wildlife and habitat conservation, serving on the State Board for the Coastal Conservation Association and as a District Chairman for Ducks Unlimited.
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