Bryan Blevins Jr.
Equity Partner | Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P.
Bryan Blevins Jr. is a mass torts, toxic torts and product liability trial lawyer and equity partner at Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. in Beaumont, Texas. Admitted in Texas; J.D., Baylor University School of Law (1990).
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Beaumont, Texas 77701
Bryan O. Blevins Jr. is an equity partner at Provost Umphrey Law Firm, L.L.P. in Beaumont, Texas. He represents people harmed by toxic exposure, defective products and industrial negligence, and he leads the firm’s asbestos litigation as administrator, trial coordinator and litigator.
A Lufkin, Texas, native, Blevins earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from Southern Methodist University and his law degree from Baylor University School of Law in 1990. He joined Provost Umphrey that year, became an equity partner in 1997 and has sat on the firm’s management committee since 2016. He has been board certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1995.
Blevins served as president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association in 2015 and has represented the group on asbestos issues before the Legislature since 2003. He also serves on the Texas Asbestos MDL Liaison Committee and on trust advisory committees for several asbestos and silica trusts. Results listed on his bio include a $16 million verdict for a union worker injured in a 50-foot fall.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Board Certified, Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization (1995)
- J.D., Baylor University School of Law (1990)
- B.A., Economics and History, Southern Methodist University (1987)
- Admitted, Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Practice Areas
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (President, 2015; Board of Directors)
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- Texas Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- State Bar of Texas
- Jefferson County Bar Association
- Fifth Federal Circuit Bar Association
- Southeast Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Port Arthur Bar Association
- Texas Asbestos MDL Liaison Committee
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Mass Tort Litigation and Class Actions (2020)
- Best Lawyers Southeast Texas Lawyer of the Year, Product Liability Litigation (2014, 2016)
- Best Lawyers in America (2013-2023)
- Texas Super Lawyers (2003-2022)
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2022, 2023)
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 (2012)
- Baylor Young Lawyer of the Year (2005)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Rated
- $16 Million Verdict: For a union member who fell 50 feet while on the job.
- $21 Million Settlements: Unpaid royalties recovered for oil and gas royalty owners.
- $140 Million Arbitration: Asbestos class action arbitration completing a $178,500,000 settlement.
- $24.4 Million Settlement: Resolved litigation against Repsol Oil and Gas USA, LLC.
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