Glen W. Morgan - Beaumont, TX

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • South Texas College of Law Houston, Houston, Texas, 1978
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Lamar University, 1975
    B.B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, Developments with the Creditors Committees, Mealey's Asbestos Bankruptcy Conference, Chicago, IL, 2002
  
• Speaker, North Brothers, a division of National Service Industries and Honeywell a/k/a North American Refractories Company, PALS Seminar, Dallas, TX, 2002

Pro Bono Activities

• Established the Donald E. Morgan Scholarship at Lamar University at Beaumont, Texas, in honor of my father for offspring of ironworkers or other deserving and qualified students.
• Established the Morgan Charitable Fund to help area charities.
• Established and permanent board member of the Cris E. Quinn Charitable Foundation in honor of law partner recently killed. The purpose is to continue different community projects that
• Established a teacher initiative program at Monsignor Kelly High School in Beaumont, Texas, to keep qualified teachers and attract the best teachers for a better education.

Representative Cases

• 1994 Laird v. E-Z Mart Stores, Inc. – $30,000,000 verdict Rape of store employee by third person. Inadequate security.
• 1991 Cimino v. Raymark – Consolidation of asbestos trials in the Eastern District of Texas. Personally tried 12 cases with the highest individual award being $3,500,000 for single laryngeal cancer case. The total verdicts for the cases personally tried is $8,708,000. The verdicts were against Celotex
  • Citation: Pittsburgh Corning and Fibreboard
• 1998 Wrench v. Pittsburgh Corning – $12,000,000 verdict against Pittsburgh Corning. 5 workers (2 non-malignancies, 2 lung cancers and 1 mesothelioma).
• 2000 Parsons v. Owens Corning – Orange County – $16,000,000 settlement after 2 weeks of trial. 7 workers (4 non-malignancies, 1 other cancer, 1 lung cancer and 1 mesothelioma).
• 2000 Edwards v. Pittsburgh Corning – Jefferson County – $52,000,000 verdict against Pittsburgh Corning and W.R. Grace. Five workers (4 non- malignancies and 1 lung cancer).
• 2001 Douglas v. North American Refractories Company – Orange County – $30,000,000 verdict against NARCO. 6 workers (4 non-malignancies and 2 lung cancers).
• 2001 Bell v. Dresser Industries – Orange County – $130,000,000 verdict against NARCO and Dresser. Five workers (2 non-malignancies, 1 other cancer and 2 lung cancers). National Law Journal; Thirteenth largest verdict in the U.S. in 2001
• 2021 Shari Dearmon, Individually, and a/n/f of Z. D., a Minor v. Calcasieu Refining
  • Citation: Company and others—Jefferson County– Wrongful Death, burn injuries Settlement $108,450,000.

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1978
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 1979
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Other Affiliations

• Texas Trial Lawyers Association, 1986 - 1994 (Associate Director)
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA), 1994 - 2005 (Director)
• Southeast Texas Trial Lawyers Association (SETTLA), 1994 - 1995 (President)
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA)
• Jefferson County Lawyer Client Reconciliation Committee
• Texas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)
• Texas Bar Association
• Jefferson County Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas
• Industrial Accident Board Special Advisory Committee on Pharmaceuticals, 1987 - 1991
• Lamar University Foundation, 1987 - 1997 (Board Member)

Fraternities and Sororities

• Delta Theta Phi