Sam Palermo - Houston, TX

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • South Texas College of Law Houston, Houston, Texas, 1982
    J.D.
    Honors: Honor Court Justice

• Non Legal Education

  • University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1979
    B.A.
    Honors: cum laude

Past Positions

• The Palermo Law Firm, 2002 - 2007
• O'Quinn & Laminack, 1992 - 2001
• Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Ballard, Onstad & Friend, 1986 - 1991
• Schechter & Eiseman, 1985
• United States District Judge in the Southern District of Texas, Honorable Ross N. Sterling, Law Clerk, 1983 - 1985

Languages

• English

Classes and Seminars

• Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course, Shared Discovery and Unsealing the File, San Antonio, Texas, November 17, 1988
  
• Advanced Civil Discovery, Shared Discovery, Dallas, Texas, June 8, 1989
  
• Trial Advocacy Program Professor Byron McCoy - Course Director Assistant Faculty Director, University of Houston National Institute, 1988
  
• Trial Advocacy Program Professor Byron McCoy - Course Director Assistant Faculty Director, University of Houston National Institute, 1989
  
• Lecturer, Civil Trial Advocacy Course, South Texas College of Law Nick C. Nichols, 1986
  
• Lecturer, Civil Trial Advocacy Course, South Texas College of Law Nick C. Nichols, 1987
  
• Lecturer, Civil Trial Advocacy Course, South Texas College of Law Nick C. Nichols, 1988
  
• Advanced Personal Injury, Jury Charge, Austin, Texas, 1993
  
• Advanced Civil Discovery, How to Invoke the Court's Power to Control Discovery: A Demonstration, Houston, Texas, 1994
  
• Advanced Products Liability Law, Innovative Discovery in the Era of the Information Highway, Houston, Texas, 1994
  
• Advanced Personal Injury and Insurance Law, Premises Liability: Including Liability for the Criminal Acts of Third Parties, Dallas & Houston, Texas, 1995
  
• Advanced Insurance Seminar, Assignments, Consent Judgments and Covenants Not to Execute, Dallas & Houston, Texas, 1997
  
• Advanced Insurance Seminar, Everything You Need To Know About Insurance Law, Houston, Texas, 1998
  
• Advanced Insurance Seminar, Assignments, Consent Judgments and Covenants Not to Execute, Dallas & Houston, Texas, 1999
  
• How to Offer and Exclude Evidence, Damages: Actual and Punitive Damages, Dallas & Houston, Texas, 2000
  
• How to Offer and Exclude Evidence, Damages: Actual and Punitive Damages, Dallas & Houston, Texas, 2001
  
• Medical Malpractice, Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Litigation, Punitive Damages: Phase Two (Evidentiary Issues in Presenting Plaintiffs and Defendant's Cases), Dallas & Houston, Texas, 2001
  
• Insurance Law for Attorneys Who Represent Insurers, Damages: Evidentiary Requirements & Proof Techniques - A Plaintiff's Lawyer's View Point, Houston & Dallas, Texas, 2001
  
• How to Offer & Exclude Evidence, Damages: Actual and Punitive Damages, Houston & Dallas, Texas, 2002
  
• How to Offer & Exclude Evidence, Exemplary Damages, Houston & Dallas, 2006
  
• National Institute for Trial Lawyers Association, Instructor

Published Works

Articles

• Medical Malpractice Conference, Emergency Room Liability, St. Mary's University and Texas Tech University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, April 9, 1987
  
• Medical Malpractice Conference, Emergency Room Liability, Houston Medical Journal, December, 1987
  
• Advanced Personal Injury Law Course, Voir Dire Examination and Opening Statement for the Plaintiff, State Bar of Texas, July-August, 1988
  
• Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course, Shared Discovery and Unsealing the File, State Bar of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, November 17, 1988
  
• Advanced Civil Discovery, Shared Discovery, University of Houston Law Center, Houston & Dallas, Texas, May, 1989
  
• Motion in Limine, The Ultimate Trial Notebook, State Bar of Texas 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, June 23, 1989
• Medical Malpractice Conference, Rambo Litigation Tactics, Texas Tech University and St. Mary's University Schools of Law, San Antonio, Texas, April 5, 1990
• Innovative Discovery in the Era of the Information Highway, Advanced Products Liability Law, Houston, Texas, July, 1994

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1983
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1983
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1985

Specialties and Certifications

• Personal Injury Trial Law, State Bar of Texas, 1992
• Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1993
• summa cum laude Graduate Certificate in Hospital and Health Law from Seton Hall Law School

Other Affiliations

• Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Former Member)
• Houston Trial Lawyers (Former Director / Member)