Mr. Dalton represents U.S. and foreign individuals and businesses in Texas state and federal trial courts and has argued appeals in several of Texas' intermediate courts of appeals and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. A related portion of Mr. Dalton's practice is to help avoid foreseeable litigation, such as by assisting clients in evaluating, negotiating, or drafting business documents, including those involving technology, healthcare, or other specialty matters. Additionally, Mr. Dalton is a Texas Registered Pharmacist and a Certified Mediator.
D. Paul Dalton is a Shareholder in the Commercial Litigation Section of Cowles & Thompson. His practice is generally devoted to commercial and complex business litigation, including disputes arising from contracts (employment, non-competition, purchases/sales, warranties, promissory notes, leases, and other formalized business dealings), business torts (fraud, fiduciary duties, tortious interference, theft/misuse of trade secrets, confidential information, or other intellectual property, and others), other actionable business conduct (such as usury, antitrust and trade regulation, copyright or trademark violations, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices), and encompassing specialty practice areas, including construction (owners, contractors, design professionals), technology (software and hardware), healthcare, and equitable relief (injunctions, restraining orders). Mr. Dalton represents U.S. and foreign individuals and businesses in Texas state and federal trial courts and has argued appeals in several of Texas' intermediate courts of appeals and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. A related portion of Mr. Dalton's practice is to help avoid foreseeable litigation, such as by assisting clients in evaluating, negotiating, or drafting business documents, including those involving technology, healthcare, or other specialty matters. Additionally, Mr. Dalton is a Texas Registered Pharmacist and a Certified Mediator.
Mr. Dalton has been recognized as a Barrister in the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court. His professional memberships have included the State Bar of Texas, American Bar Association, Dallas Bar Association, Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Dallas Association of Defense Counsel and the Defense Research Institute. Mr. Dalton has devoted substantial volunteer time to public high school management, curriculum and facilities issues during many years of service on the School-Centered Education Council for Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, including service as Chair from 1996-1998.
Mr. Dalton has served on the Instructional Faculty of the annual Southern Deposition Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy from 1996 to the present; was a Visiting Lecturer of Law for the American Civil Jury program and demonstration at the Marie Curie Swardowski University in Lublin, Poland in 1996; has presented lectures to attorneys on handling complex civil litigation, injunctions, and employment law insurance coverage and to pharmacists on professional liability and business law issues. He is a principal author of the Conflicts of Law articles in the 1984 and 1985 Annual Survey of Texas Law issues of The Southwestern Law Journal. Most recently, he was a presenter at the Cowles & Thompson Law & Technology seminar.
Mr. Dalton received his B.S. Pharmacy degree in 1973 from The University of Houston College of Pharmacy and his J.D. degree in 1979 from Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he served as Associate Editor of The Journal of Air Law and Commerce, and as Chief Counsel of the Moot Court Board. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, the National Order of Barristers, and was the 1984 recipient of the SMU School of Law Moot Court Board's "Distinguished Alumnus Award." He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1979 and is admitted to practice before all of the United States District Courts in Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Supreme Court.
Education:
- J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, 1979
- B.S. in Pharmacy, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, 1973
Admissions:
- State Bar of Texas, 1979
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
Memberships & Affiliations:
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, Defense Research Institute
- Member, Texas Association of Defense Counsel
- Member, Dallas Association of Defense Counsel
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
