Jim Perdue Jr.

Jim M. Perdue Jr. is a partner at Perdue & Kidd in Houston with a national practice focused on civil trials, medical product and pharmaceutical liability claims, and catastrophic personal injury cases. He is board certified in medical professional liability by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys and in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Perdue has tried more than 30 personal injury cases to jury verdict, including more than a dozen multimillion-dollar verdicts in product liability, workplace injury and medical malpractice cases. They include a $40 million verdict in a commercial trucking case in DeWitt County in 2019 and a $27.6 million verdict against Boston Scientific that the National Law Journal listed among the largest product liability verdicts of 2014.

He is a past president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association (2021) and of the Houston Trial Lawyers Association. He serves on the Texas Supreme Court’s Rules Advisory Committee and is an adviser on the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law (Third) of Torts: Concluding Provisions. Perdue is an Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocates and a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas and received his law degree cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center, which named him its Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in 2006.