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John J. Janssen was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He earned a B.A. from Southwestern University in 1987, an M.A. from Yale University in 1989, and a J.D. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He served as a staff attorney for the Thirteenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas, an assistant county attorney for Nueces County, and as a college instructor at various institutions of higher education before entering private practice on a full-time basis. He is the author of Constitutional Equilibria, published by University Press of America in 2002, and articles in The Review of Litigation and Constitutional Commentary , and is a member of the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section, the Texas Association of Defense Counsel, the American Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section, and the Texas Bar Foundation. A litigator, his practice areas include the following:
- Business and Commercial Litigation
- Unfair Competition/Intellectual Property
- Products Liability
- Premises Liability
- Medical Malpractice
- Constitutional Law
- Civil Appeals
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Personal Injury Defense
- Bar Admissions:
- Texas, 1994
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 2000
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 2001
- Education:
- The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas,
1993
J.D.
Honors: Dean's Achievement Awards (2x) - The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA,
1996
Ph.D.
Honors: 4.0 GPA
Honors: Phi Kappa Phi
Major: Government - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA,
1989
M.A.
Honors: University Fellowship
Honors: Teaching Fellow
Major: Political Science - Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, USA,
1987
B.A.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Major: Philosophy and Political Science
- Published Works:
- Constitutional Equilibria: The Partisan Contingency of American Constitutional Law from the Jeffersonian "Revolution" to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, University Press of America, 2000
- Public School Finance, School Choice, and Equal Educational Opportunity in Texas: The Enduring Importance of Background Conditions, 19 The Review of Litigation, Winter, 2000
- "Dualist Constitutional Theory and the Republican Revolution of 1800", 12 Constitutional Commentary 381, Winter, 1995
- Representative Cases:
- In re DiamlerChrysler Services North America, L.L.C., 2005 WL 3526351 (Texas App. - Corpus Christi 2005)
- SSP v. Gladstrong Investments (USA) Corp., 169 S.W.3d 27 (Texas App. - Corpus Christi 2005)
- Price Drilling Co. v. Zertuche, 147 S.W.3d 483 (Texas App. - San Antonio 2004)
- Tomasi v. Liao et al, 63 S.W.3d 62 (Texas App. - San Antonio 2001)
- Classes/Seminars Taught:
- "Knowing and Protecting your Intellectual Property", Protecting Your Company's Assets, Corpus Christi Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, July 18, 2006
- "Easements and Eminent Domain in Texas", Law of Easments: Legal Issues and Practical Considerations in Texas, Lorman Education Services, June 23, 2006
- "Overview of the Texas Workers' Compensation System", Worker's Compensation in Texas, Lorman Education Services, February 3, 2005
- Honors and Awards:
- Corpus Christi Association of Legal Professionals "Boss of the Year" March 2006
- Texas Bar Foundation
- Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating: BV
- Gregory Portland Community Learning Centers, "Hispanic Achivement Award", 2005
- Professional Associations and Memberships:
- American Bar Association
- Member
- State Bar of Texas, Appellate Section
- Member
- American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
- Texas Bar Foundation
- Corpus Christi Bar Association
- State Bar of Texas Committee on Administration of Rules of Evidence
- Member, 2008-2011 Term
- Past Employment Positions:
- Brin & Brin, P.C., Associate
- Thirteenth District Texas Court of Appeals, Staff Attorney
- The University of Texas-Pan American, Assistant Professor
- Nueces County Attorney's Office, Assistant County Attorney
- Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi, Adjust Professor
- Del Mar College, Adjunct Professor
- Southwestern University, Visiting Instructor
- The University of Texas at Austin, Teaching Assistant
- Ancillary Businesses:
- Public Policy Analysis/Consulting
With offices in Corpus Christi, Austin, and San Antonio, the law firm of Porter, Rogers, Dahlman & Gordon, P.C., serves South Texas, Central Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley. We have many clients in Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Brooks, Burnett, Cameron, Comal, Duval, Gillespie, Hays, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Kendall, Live Oak, Nueces, Port Aransas, San Patricio, Starr, Travis, Uvalde, Webb, Williamson, and Wilson counties, including the communities of Alice, Brownsville, Del Rio, Edinburg, Fulton, Harlingen, Laredo, McAllen, Rockport, and San Diego.
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