Tommy W. Gillaspie

After playing football at Harvard and graduating cum laude, Tommy started his law career 36 years ago defending health care providers with Vinson & Elkins. From there he started his own law firm and for seventeen years Tommy tried cases ranging from explosions to eighteen-wheeler collisions to horrible burn cases.

The decades of honed skills are now brought to bear on behalf of the numerous subrogation claims handled by DMBP. A skilled litigator, Tommy heads up trial teams bringing cases in New Mexico, Colorado and across Texas involving all matter of catastrophic property damage claims.

Professional Affiliations:

• ABOTA Nominated, Houston: 2011
• Member, Houston Bar Association, American Bar Association
• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Director, (1995-2001) Houston Trial Lawyers Association
• Associate Director, Texas Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Premise Liability Committee of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Member, Houston Young Lawyers Association
• Member, American Society of Law and Medicine
• Member, The Rutherford Institute
• Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation, Texas Bar Foundation
• Life Member: Million Dollar Advocates Forum

Community/Civic Activities:

• Board of Directors, Christian Radio Station 89.3 KSBJ (owned and operated by Something Better Educational Foundation) (1988 – 1991)
• Deacon and Class Leader/Teacher, Second Baptist Church (1988 – 2000)
• Founding Member and Elder; Spring Valley Fellowship (2000 to 2007)
• Member, Christian Legal Society; Volunteer Attorney, Emergency Aid Coalition
• Member, Harvard Varsity Club, Harvard Club of Houston
• Board of Directors: Kardo Ministries (2005-2010)
• Property Acquisition Team; Ecclesia Church (2009-2010)

Honors & Awards:

• Voted Texas Top Rated Lawyer, AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell
• Voted “Outstanding Lawyer in Houston” by H Texas Magazine from 2008-2013
• Voted “Texas Super Lawyers” Texas Magazine 2011-2013

Published Appellate Work:

• Author/Speaker: South Texas College of Law
  Advanced Personal Injury Law Conference - “Medical Malpractice Update”
  May 16 - 17, 1996, Houston, Texas
• Author/Speaker: State Bar of Texas
  Advanced Personal Injury Law Course - “Premises Liability”
  August 7 - 9, 1996, Dallas, Texas
• Author/Speaker: The Rutherford Institute
  Fall Regional Conference - “Christian Ethics and the Law”
  October 1, 1996, Houston, Texas
• Author/Speaker: State Bar of Texas
  Advanced Personal Injury Law Course - “Premises Liability”
  July 23 - 25, 1997, Dallas, and Houston, Texas
• Author/Speaker: State Bar of Texas
  Advanced Personal Injury Law Course - “Premises Liability Update”
  November, 1997, Cozumel, Mexico
• Author/Speaker: National Business Institute
  “Trying and Preparing the Difficult Premises Liability Case”
  January 14, 1998, Houston, Texas
• Speaker: State Bar of Texas
  Advanced Personal Injury Law Course – “Premise Liability”
  August 5, 1999, San Antonio, Texas
• Author/Speaker: National Business Institute
  “Premises Liability: Preparation and Trial of a Difficult Case in Texas”
  September 28, 1999, Houston, Texas
• Author/Speaker: Certified Continuing Legal Education
  “Bullet-Proofing the Chapter 74 Expert Witness Report”
  South of the Border Legal Presentation
  October - November 2009, Laredo, Eagle Pass, Rio Grande City and McAllen, Texas