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For more than 40 years, Dallas attorney Frank L. Branson has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to victims of dangerous products, commercial airplane crashes, injuries from gas explosions or electric burns, medical negligence, major trucking accidents, and industrial catastrophes. He and the legal team at The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson also successfully pursued companies and corporate representatives in high-stakes business disputes.
Widely recognized as one of America’s best trial lawyers, Branson provides clients with tenacious pre-trial preparation and masterful courtroom strategies. A leader in the effective use of multimedia demonstrative evidence, his full-time staff includes a registered nurse, a highly experienced investigator, and an audio/visual professional who works closely with the firm’s top-flight attorneys to produce digital video, computer animation, medical art, and individualized anatomical models that make judges and juries take notice.
“What we are trying to do is allow the judge and jury to walk in our client’s moccasins a short distance in order to understand the nature and severity of their injuries. We have never hesitated to use our resources to go the extra mile for our clients,” says Branson.
In addition to accepting referrals from other lawyers, Branson and the firm regularly represent prominent doctors, lawyers, business executives, politicians, and other professionals in cases where they or their families have faced major legal issues.
Southern Methodist University, LL.M., 1974
Southern Methodist University, J.D., 1969
Texas Christian University, B.A., 1967
Texas State District Courts
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eighth Circuits
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
American Inn of Court – Master
American Board of Trial Advocates – Advocate Member; Past President, Dallas Chapter
Attorneys’ Information Exchange Group – Founding Director
Association of Trial Lawyers of America – Former Board of Governors Member; Stalwart; President’s Club Charter Member; Former Dean of Medical Malpractice College; Lifetime Fellow of Roscoe-Pound Foundation
College of the State Bar of Texas – Life Fellow
Dallas Bar Association – Member
Dallas Bar Foundation – Life Fellow
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association – Past President
Institution for Injury Reduction – Director
International Academy of Trial Lawyers – Fellow
International Society of Barristers – Fellow
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law – Executive Board Member
Southern Trial Lawyers Association – Past President
State Bar of Texas – Former Grievance Committee Prosecutor; Former Chairman Administration of Rules of Evidence Committee
Texas Bar Foundation – Member
Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee – Former Member
Texas Trial Lawyers Association – Director Emeritus
“Demonstrative and Documentary Evidence in Contemporary Tort Litigation, ATLA’s Litigating Tort Cases, Vol. 4, Chapter 42, ATLA Press (2003)
“Trucking Accident Litigation,” Handling Motor Vehicle Accidents, 2nd Edition, Vol. 3, Chapter 13, West Group (2001)
Commentary for “Demonstrative Evidence,” ATLA Trial Magazine (Sept. 1995)
Member, Highland Park Presbyterian Church
Democratic National Committee Trustee (former)
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Leadership Circle Member (former)
Finance Council of Dallas County Democratic Party (former)
National Finance Committee, Clinton for President (former)
Honoree, Distinguished Service Award for Vietnam Veterans of America (former)
American Heart Foundation Chip Moody Eagle Award (former)
Dallas Democratic Forum Advisory Board (former)
Ambassador-at-Large, Southern Methodist University (former)
Garland Community Hospital Trustee (former)
Texas Lawyer Legal Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, 2024
The Best Lawyers in America, 1987-2025
Who’s Who Top Attorneys of North America, 2022-2023
500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers by Lawdragon, 2019-2024
Best Lawyers Hall of Fame by D Magazine, 2022
Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, as published in Texas Monthly, 2003-2024
Top 10 Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, as published in Texas Monthly, 2007-2024
Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters and Texas Monthly, 2003-2024
Top 100 Super Lawyers in Dallas/Fort Worth, Thomson Reuters, 2003-2024
Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011-2024
Best Law Firms by U.S. News/Best Lawyers, Tier 1 Ranking in Commercial Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability and Professional Malpractice, 2010-2024
Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame, 2021
Elite Trial Lawyers award 2019 in Product Liability by the National Law Journal
Top 100 Verdicts in Texas, as published by Texas Lawyer and VerdictSearch, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018
Texas’ Top Rated Lawyers by ALM and Martindale-Hubbell, 2010-2017
Top 100 Verdicts in America, as published by The National Law Journal and VerdictSearch, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2016
Third Largest Motor Vehicle Verdict in Texas by VerdictSearch and Texas Lawyer, 2016
500 Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas/Fort Worth by D CEO Magazine, 2016
Selected among the “50 Lions of the Texas Bar” by Texas Lawbook, 2015-2016
Top 50 Elite Trial Lawyers in the nation by ALM/National Law Journal, 2014
Dallas “Lawyer of the Year” for Medical Malpractice Law by Best Lawyers in America, 2014
Top 3 Texas Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, as published in Texas Monthly, 2012 and 2013
Lifetime Achiever, Texas Verdicts Hall of Fame by Texas Lawyer and VerdictSearch, 2012
Largest Business Law Verdict in Texas, VerdictSearch and Texas Lawyer, 2012
Named one of three Go-To Plaintiff Attorneys in Personal Injury by Texas Lawyer, 2012
Dallas “Lawyer of the Year” for Plaintiffs’ Product Liability Litigation by Best Lawyers in America, 2012
500 Leading Lawyers in America by Lawdragon, 2006-2011
Teddy Roosevelt “Man in the Arena” Award presented by the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America – 2011
Trial Lawyer of the Year, Dallas Bar Association, 2010
Pursuit of Justice Award, American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, 2010
Distinguished Alumni Award for Private Practice, Southern Methodist University, 2010
AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest level of professional excellence
Recipient of the Mel Award, by the Melvin Belli Society, 2007
Professor W. McKinley Smiley, Jr. Lighthouse Award by the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, 2005
Southern Trial Lawyers Association War Horse Award, 2001
Named by Forbes as one of the most successful trial lawyers in the country, 1989
Married to Debbie D. Branson, an attorney at The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson. The Bransons’ two children, Jennifer and Buck, are graduates of Southern Methodist University Law School.
