Stan Perry

Houston
T: +1 713 469 3847

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Stan Perry's practice focuses on toxic tort, product liability, and mass tort litigation. His experience includes leading teams of attorneys in multi-state and multidistrict litigation (MDL) to achieve client's objectives, whether that is trying lawsuits or resolving litigation efficiently and effectively. Stan has extensive experience in applying the standards for the admissibility of expert testimony in state and federal courts, including motions to challenge experts under Daubert, Frye, and other standards.

He has served as local counsel, trial counsel, and national counsel in mass tort, product liablity, and toxic tort lawsuits. He has significant experience in benzene litigation in lawsuits involving alleged exposures to aromatics (benzene, gasoline, diesel, among others).

Stan is licensed in Texas and Illinois and has litigated cases in more than 20 states, including as trial counsel in Texas, Louisiana, and Arizona. He was one of the trial counsel for defendants in Raul Zendejas v. Shell Oil Co., Maricopa County Superior Court, CV-2007-005399. At this trial, Stan and co-counsel successfully defended a gasoline manufacturer in a lawsuit claiming plaintiff's exposure to benzene in gasoline caused his leukemia.

He was trial counsel in Burst v. Shell Oil Company, a 2015 decision excluding plaintiff's exposure assessment and general causation experts and granting summary judgment for defendants in a gasoline-acute myelogenous leukemia lawsuit in the United States District Court of Louisiana, Eastern Division (New Orleans). The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Burst on May 23, 2016.

Stan is Global Director of Pro Bono and Community Service and leads the firm's Pro Bono Committee. Stan is a member of the firm’s Racial Equity Task Force and lead for pro bono projects arising from this task force. He is also a member of the Houston Advisory Committee for KIND (Kids in Need of Defense), a non-profit dedicated to providing legal counsel to minors fleeing violence and oppression in Central America.

Credenciales

University of Virginia School of Law, 1990, J.D., Senior Editorial Board of The Journal of Law and Politics; Honor Counsel
Baylor University, 1987, B.A., Dean's Distinguished Lists

Texas
Illinois

U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court - Northern District of Texas
U.S. District Court - Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court - Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court - Western District of Arkansas

Baylor University Law School -Adjunct Professor - Litigation Management LLM
State Bar of Texas, The Pro Bono College
State Bar of Texas, Standing Committee, Lawyers' Assistance Program (TLAP), member of TLAP 2011-2018, chair 2015 - 2016
International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
State Bar of Texas, Litigation Section
American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Houston Bar Association, Litigation Section

Honorable E. Gerald Tremblay, Circuit Court - Albemarle County, Virginia

Premios y reconocimientos

Selected for inclusion in the Texas Super Lawyers list for Class Action (2005-2019)

Civic Involvement

Jefferson Award for Public Service, 2014
Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) -Houston Advisory Committee Member, pro bono counsel, and recipient of 2019 KINDest Pro Bono Advocate award
Tahirih Justice Center -Pro bono counsel

Amber Finch named a 2020 Crisis Leadership Trailblazer

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