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MEET MANAGING PARTNER – DALLAS OFFICE

T. MICAH DORTCH




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Micah is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Dallas for their clients. Micah began achieving this level of
office. He was born in Longview, Texas, where he results in the early years of his career and has done
lived until his adolescent years, and where most of so every year thereafter. Presently, fewer than 1% of
his family lives today. Micah attended grade school U.S. lawyers are members of the forum.
in the small town of Llano, Texas, where his mother
was a Spanish teacher and high school debate coach. Micah was also named in the Texas Super Lawyers®
When you grow up in a small town, you are taught Rising Stars® list by Thomson Reuters Legal in 2010
to work hard, value your family and community, help and 2012-2018, as well as Texas Super Lawyers® in
those in need, and to always rely on your instincts. 2019 and 2020. In addition, Micah was chosen by the
Micah carries these values with him through his life. National Trial Lawyers Association as one of the Top
100 plaintiff lawyers in America.
At a young age, Micah began achieving immense
success in the Courtroom. Prior to his 40th birthday, In 2014, Micah was awarded the Fraud “verdict
Micah served as lead trial counsel in over 1,000 of the year” for his role as lead trial counsel in the
federal and state court matters. In his mid-30’s, Royce Homes litigation, which resulted in a return
Micah became a member of the prestigious Multi- to creditors of millions of dollars in fraudulently
Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Membership in the taken assets of the Debtor. In addition, Micah
Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum is limited to served as class counsel in Diebold v. Northern
attorneys whose hard work and advocacy resulted Trust Investments, N.A., where the court approved a
in multi-million dollar verdicts and/or settlements settlement of $36 million to the class. Micah has also


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served as lead counsel in countless other matters millions of dollars in fraudulently taken assets of
resulting in verdicts or settlements which paid his the Debtor.
clients tens of millions of dollars.
Micah served as class counsel in the ERISA class
Today, Micah maintains a large docket of civil action Diebold, et al. v. Northern Trust Investments,
litigation throughout the United States. Micah’s N.A. et al., 09-Civ-1934 (Diebold), in the United States
litigation docket includes catastrophic personal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
injury, Breach of Contract, Business Torts, Fraudulent where the Court approved a collective settlement
Transfer, Copyright Infringement, Financial Fraud, of $36 million dollars for class representatives
Insurance Policy Interpretation, Personal Injury, resulting in millions of dollars returned to investors.
Products Liability, and Securities Class Actions.
Micah served as Special Litigation counsel for the
When he is not working, Micah enjoys spending Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee in the multi-billion
time with his friends and family, competing in BBQ dollar bankruptcy of ATP Oil & Gas Corp., U.S..
Cook-offs with his team the “BBQ Barristers” and Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas,
his barbeque pit, which he named “Eleanor”. Micah No. 12-36187 wherein Micah was lead counsel in a
is also quite entrepreneurial and owns non legal multitude of litigation resulting in millions of dollars
businesses, include a lending company in North returned to creditors of the oil and gas company
Texas, an oil and gas related business in Ohio, and
a credit card payment business in Dallas. Micah and Micah served as lead counsel for the family of
his wife are dog lovers and donate time and money Roy Aguilar who was tragically killed on October
to helping rescue and treat animals in need. 11, 2011 at the Texas Instruments Plant in Dallas
Texas. Micah filed suit against the employer of Mr.
EDUCATION: Aguilar and manufacturer of the product involved in
the death. Ultimately, the case was resolved and the
J.D., South Texas College of Law, 2005 family able to comfortably grieve for their patriarch.

B.A., Texas A&M University, 2001 Micah served as lead counsel for the family of Kook

NOTABLE CASES: Oh who was killed by an 18-wheeler in Alvarado,
Texas. Mr. Dortch sued the driver of the 18-wheeler
Adelmira Chavez et al v. Atmos Energy Corporation and his employer. Following a week-long jury trial,
et al, No. 92375- Ellis County 40th State District Micah’s client received a verdict awarding over one
Court, 2015. Representation of the Victims of the million dollars in damages and a finding of punitive
2015 Natural Gas Explosion in Waxahachie Texas liability on the part of each of the defendants. In
addition, the jury found gross negligence on the
In 2014, Micah was awarded the Fraud “verdict of part of the defendants. Ultimately, the case resolved
the year” for his role as lead trial counsel in C.A. No. without the family having to undergo the second
4:11-cv-3700; Rodney Tow vs. John H. Speer, in the half of the trial.
United States District Court for the Southern District
of Texas, which resulted in a return to creditors of


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