Matt Hurt - Prosper, TX

Overview

Awards and Honors

Super Lawyers® Selectees

Super Lawyers® is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations. The number provided represents the number of attorneys at the firm that have been selected to the Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists.

Matt Hurt included in a Super Lawyers® list

Education

• Legal Education

  • Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas, 2001
    J.D.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Honors: Highest Grade in Three Classes: Torts, Products Liability, and Legal Writing
    Honors: Law School’s Texas Aggie Bar Association, President
    Honors: Board of Barristers, Member
    Honors: Won the Texas Tech School of Law Mock Trial Competition
    Law Review: Texas Tech Law Review, Technology Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • Texas A&M University, 1996
    B.S.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Honors: Nominated as Outstanding Student in the College of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
    Honors: Student Government, Member
    Major: Civil Engineering

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Past Positions

• Garcia & Associates Engineering, Inc., Civil Engineer
• Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP, 2001 - 2011
• Dawson & Sodd, PLLC

Classes and Seminars

• CLE Presentation: Presenting Your Case with Demonstrative Evidence, Center for American and International Law; Planning, Zoning, and Eminent Domain Seminar, SMU Plano Campus, 2010 - Present
  
• CLE Presentation: Overview of Texas Condemnation and Eminent Domain Law, Collin County Bench/Bar Conference, 2012 - Present
  
• CLE Presentation: Eminent Domain, Texas Aggie Bar Association Annual Meeting, Texas A&M University, 2015 - Present
  
• CLE Presentation: Attacking an Appraiser by Attacking the Other Experts, Attacking and Defending an Appraisal in Litigation CLE Conference in Austin, November 17, 2016 - November 18, 2016
  
• Improving the Landowner’s Odds in Eminent Domain Cases, published in April 2015 issue of Headnotes for the Dallas Bar Association, co-authored with Tyler Milton and Jody McSpadden

Pro Bono Activities

• Northwest Bible Church, Member
• Ranch POA, Colorado, Board of Directors, President

Representative Clients

• The State of Texas and TxDOT

• Numerous pipeline cases

• Numerous powerline cases

• Union Pacific Railroad

• BNSF Railroad

• DART

• Atmos

• Cities including Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Frisco

• Several counties

• Fort Worth Trinity River Vision Project

• Various water and utility districts

• North Texas Municipal Water District

• Tarrant Regional Water District

• Trinity River Authority

• Prosper ISD

Published Works

Articles

• Improving the Landowner’s Odds in Eminent Domain Cases, Headnotes for the Dallas Bar Association, April, 2015
  co-authored with Tyler Milton and Jody McSpadden

Bar Admissions

• Texas
• Colorado, 2002
• U.S. Federal Courts
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas

Other Affiliations

• Colorado Bar Association (Member)
• Dallas Bar Association
• Texas Aggie Bar Association
• Texas Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)