Chip Brooker
Lead Trial Lawyer & Chief Storyteller | Brooker Law
Chip Brooker is a truck accidents, wrongful death and catastrophic injuries trial lawyer and lead trial lawyer & chief storyteller at Brooker Law in Dallas, Texas. Admitted in Texas; J.D., SMU Dedman School of Law (2004).
Meet Chip
Chip Brooker is a Dallas trial lawyer and the lead trial lawyer at Brooker Law, where he tries wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury cases nationwide. The firm lists truck accidents, wrongful death and catastrophic injuries among its areas of focus.
Brooker earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Texas A&M University in 2001 and a law degree from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law in 2004. He is admitted to the Texas Supreme Court and to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.
In 2018, The National Law Journal and The National Trial Lawyers named him to their Products Liability Trial Team of the Year for a $242.1 million verdict against an automobile manufacturer, in a case involving two children with severe traumatic brain injuries. The firm also credits him with a $10.9 million wrongful death verdict in Dallas County arising from a charter bus rollover and a $7.26 million wrongful death verdict after a tractor-trailer crashed into stopped traffic.
Brooker is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has held leadership roles with the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association and the Dallas Bar Association.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Texas A&M University, B.S. in Political Science, magna cum laude (2001)
- Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., cum laude (2004)
- Admitted to the Texas Supreme Court
- Admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
Practice Areas
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- State Bar of Texas, Litigation Section (Council)
- Dallas Bar Association (Director, 2012)
- Dallas Bar Association Tort & Insurance Practice Section (Treasurer, 2025; Director)
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Director)
- Dallas Trial Lawyers Association (Vice President and Secretary, 2025; Director)
- American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division (District Representative)
- Texas Young Lawyers Association (Director)
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (President, 2012)
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation (Chair, 2010)
- Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court (Barrister)
- Texas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
- Dallas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Foundation (Life Fellow)
- Products Liability Trial Team of the Year, The National Law Journal and The National Trial Lawyers (2018)
- The Best Lawyers in America, Plaintiff's Personal Injury (9 times)
- Texas Super Lawyers, Plaintiff's Personal Injury (11 times)
- Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star (9 times)
- Top 100 Dallas-Fort Worth Super Lawyers
- Best Lawyers in Dallas, Plaintiff's Personal Injury, D Magazine (9 times)
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2019)
- $242.1 Million Verdict: Verdict against a major automobile manufacturer after defective seat backs and seat belts caused severe traumatic brain injuries to two children. Named Products Liability Trial Team of the Year by The National Law Journal and The National Trial Lawyers (2018).
- $10.9 Million Wrongful Death Verdict: Dallas County verdict for the families of two victims killed when a charter bus rolled over en route to the Choctaw Casino in Durant, Oklahoma.
- $7.26 Million Wrongful Death Verdict: Texas state court verdict after a tractor-trailer crashed into stopped traffic.
- $13 Million Judgment: Judgment in a complex civil racketeering case following a four-week federal bench trial; Brooker was a member of the trial team.
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