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Shelby White speaks at the Fort Worth Paralegals Association’s Holiday Luncheon
Congratulations to Dallas attorney, Shelby White, who presented at the Fort Worth Paralegals Association’s holiday luncheon on November 21, 2024. The topic was “The Appellate Process: What Your Attorney Wants You to Know for Litigation and Appeals”. Thanks for representing DP&S, Shelby.
Shelby White featured in the 2024 Athletes in Law Special Issue
Attorney At Law Magazine has just published its 2024 Athletes in Law special issue celebrating lawyers who played collegiate sports. This issue features our own Shelby White, who was on the Equestrian team at Baylor University for four years. Click here to read about Shelby and all the other amazing “Athletes In Law”.
DP&S is in the Top Verdicts in Texas List for 2023!
A $21.6M Civil Rights verdict that DP&S attorneys Thad Spalding and Shelby White assisted in winning for client Odell Edwards in 2023 was recently recognized as the Number 1 Verdict in Texas in the category of Excessive Force, Police Brutality, Police Misconduct, and Law Enforcement Misconduct. This case also placed number 21 in the Top 50 Jury Verdicts and 37 in Top 50 Wrongful Death Verdicts in Texas overall for that year. Congratulations to all the hardworking attorneys involved in this case! You can see the Top Verdicts list here and can read more about the details of the case here.
DP&S helps secure $1.9M settlement in civil rights case!
Congratulations to Shelby White, Thad Spalding, and trial counsel, Daryl Washington, who settled a civil rights case against the City of Arlington and one of its officers for $1.9 million. The case involved the fatal shooting of Tavis Crane by Arlington police officer Craig Roper after Crane was stopped when his toddler threw a candy wrapper out of the car window. The trial court granted summary judgment to Officer Roper on the basis of qualified immunity. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit reversed that judgment, finding fact issues that needed to be decided by a jury as to whether Roper acted used reasonable force, considering–among many other facts–the speed with which Roper resorted to using deadly force.
DP&S helps win $21.6M Civil Rights verdict!
Congratulations to Daryl Washington and Greg Marks who, with help from DP&S’s Shelby White and Thad Spalding, won a $21.6 million jury verdict for their client, Odell Edwards, in a civil rights case involving the use of excessive, deadly force. The plaintiff’s 15-year-old son, Jordan, was shot and killed by a Balch Springs police officer, Roy Oliver, as the car Jordan was riding in was leaving a house party. The police officer was criminally convicted of murder in 2018, but continued to claim that his shooting was justified. On April 3, 2023, the civil jury disagreed, finding Oliver liable for using excessive, deadly force, and awarding $10.6 million in actual damages to Mr. Edwards and to Jordan’s estate, and an additional $11 million in punitive damages for the officer’s wrongful conduct.
DP&S welcomes its newest attorney, Shelby White!
DP&S is pleased to announce that, beginning January 3, 2022, Shelby White joined the firm’s Dallas office. Shelby brings a wealth of appellate experience to the firm, having spent three years with the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Appellate Section where she served as lead attorney in over 50 appeals. Before that, Shelby was with the appellate and litigation section of Harris, Finley & Bogle, PC in Fort Worth where she worked on commercial cases at the state and federal level in Texas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania, and briefed appeals to the Texas Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and numerous intermediate appellate courts. Shelby is a graduate of Baylor undergraduate and law schools, a past board member of the Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association, a past president of the Tarrant County Bar Association’s Appellate Section, where she still serves on the section committee, and a top attorney according to Fort Worth Magazine since 2015. Shelby will be an excellent addition to our team.