Quentin Brogdon
Partner | Crain Brogdon, LLP
Quentin Brogdon is a wrongful death, vehicle accidents and product liability trial lawyer and partner at Crain Brogdon, LLP in Dallas, Texas. Admitted in Texas and Arkansas; J.D., University of Houston Law Center (1989).
Meet Quentin
"Once in awhile, you get to fix a wrong. You get to right a wrong. You get to make a real change in somebody's life. And when that happens, it makes all the other long hours and all the other frustrations worthwhile. That's why I get up every morning to practice law."
Quentin Brogdon is a Dallas trial lawyer and a partner at Crain Brogdon, LLP, where his practice areas include wrongful death, vehicle accidents, product liability, premises liability, dram shop and civil liability for criminal acts. He is board certified in personal injury trial law and in civil trial advocacy.
Brogdon earned a B.A. from Rice University in 1985 and both a J.D. and an M.B.A. from the University of Houston in 1989, where he was an associate editor of the Houston Law Review. He has been admitted to the State Bar of Texas since 1989.
He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. Brogdon served as president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association in 2022, the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association in 2007-2008, the Dallas chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2017 and the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America in 2018-2019.
Texas Monthly has named him a Super Lawyer every year since 2003, and he was Best Lawyers in America’s 2023 Lawyer of the Year for plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation in Dallas/Fort Worth. He has written 90 published articles on personal injury trial law.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Rice University, B.A. in Economics and History (1985)
- University of Houston, M.B.A. (1989)
- University of Houston Law Center, J.D. (1989)
- Admitted to the State Bar of Texas (1989)
- Board certified in personal injury trial law and civil trial advocacy
- Admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of Texas
- Admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
Practice Areas
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Fellow)
- American College of Trial Lawyers (Fellow; Vice-Chair, Texas State Committee)
- International Society of Barristers (Fellow)
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (President, 2022)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Dallas Chapter President, 2017; National Executive Committee, 2022)
- Dallas Trial Lawyers Association (President, 2007-2008)
- Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (President, 2018-2019)
- State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charges Committee, Business, Consumer & Employment Law (2007-2009)
- Dallas Bar Association
- American Inns of Court, William "Mac" Taylor Chapter (Master)
- Texas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
- American Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- Dallas Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- Texas Bar College
- American Association for Justice
- Best Lawyers in America, Lawyer of the Year, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, Dallas/Fort Worth (2022, 2023)
- Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Litigation (2014-present)
- Texas Monthly Super Lawyers (2003-present); Top 100 (2013-present)
- Texas Monthly Top 3 Super Lawyers in Texas (2024, 2025); Top 10 (2023)
- National Trial Lawyers, Top 100 Texas Trial Lawyers (2011-present)
- D Magazine, Best Lawyers in Dallas (2014-present)
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiffs' Consumer Lawyers (2019)
- State Bar of Texas, Gene Cavin Award for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education (2025)
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Don Bowen Distinguished Service Award (2024)
- Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, Thurgood Marshall "Fighting for Justice" Award (2018)
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