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Thomas Tardy

 
Attorney - Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy PLLC
 
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Company Name : Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy PLLC
 
Company Website : www.fpwk.com
 
Company Address : Bryan Tower
Ste. 1300, Dallas, TX,
United States,
 
Thomas Tardy Profile :
Attorney - Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy PLLC
 
Thomas Tardy Biography :

EDUCATION

Mississippi State University

(B.S., Accounting, 1968)

University of Mississippi School of Law

(J.D., with Distinction, 1973)

MILITARY

Lt. Inf., U.S. Army 1968-1971

Instructor, Officer's Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia

Reconnaissance Platoon Leader, Vietnam

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

Phi Kappa Phi

Phi Alpha Delta

Beta Alpha Psi

Member, Mississippi Law Journal, 1972-1973

Outstanding Lawyers of America

Best Lawyers in America

Prior Area Chairman, Defense Research Institute

Instructor in trial advocacy for the Trial Practice Academy of the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association, 1985

Barrister, Charles Clark Inns of Court

Graduate, Court Practice Institute's program of trial advocacy

Graduate, National Institute of Trial Advocacy's advanced training program

• Member, The Lamar Order of the University of Mississippi Alumni Association

PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES

"Liability of Equipment Manufacturers for Products of Another: Is Relief in Sight?" Silica, Harris Martin Columns, April 2007

"Practical Applications of Screening Fraud Analysis"

Defense Research Institute Seminar,

Asbestos Medicine

(Las Vegas, NV, October 26-27, 2006)

"Defending Mass Tort Cases by Exposing Plaintiff Fraud"

Network of Trial Law Firms Seminar,

Watching Whales and Minding Minnows

(Laguna Beach, CA, April 28-29, 2006)

"Aftermath of Silica MDL 1553: Effects on Asbestos Litigation"

Harris Martin,

Asbestos Litigation Conference

(Washington, DC, March 2-3, 2006)

"Something Can Be Done About Mass Tort Litigation"

Network of Trial Law Firms Seminar,

Litigation Management in a New York Minute

(New York, NY, August 5-6, 2005)

"Desert Storm: Silica Assault on Screenings Through MDL No. 1553"

Network of Trial Law Firms Seminar,

The Quest for Silverado

(Napa Valley, CA, April 8-9, 2005)

"The Asbestos Litigation Monster: Lessons Learned"

[co-moderator], Network of Trial Law Firms Seminar,

Litigation Management SuperCourse 2004

(Scottsdale, AZ, April 16-17, 2004)

"The ‘New’ Defendants (Pumps, Retailers)"

Defense Research Institute Seminar,

Asbestos Medicine

(Miami, FL, November 6-7, 2003)

"Asbestos Litigation: The End?"

Network of Trial Law Firms Seminar,

Licensed to Litigate

(Palm Beach, FL, October 24-25, 2003)

"History of Mississippi Asbestos Litigation - How Did We Get Here?"

Mississippi Law Journal Symposium,

Litigation in Mississippi Today

(Oxford, MS, November 9, 2001)

"Managing the Morass of Multi-Jurisdictional Mass Tort Litigation Through the Use of a National Coordinating Counsel"

Network of Trial Law Firms Seminar,

Top Gun Litigation Management SuperCourse

(San Diego, CA, April 26-29, 2001)

"Effective Use of Coordinated Defense Support and National Coordinating Counsel by the Peripheral Asbestos Defendant"

Defense Research Institute Seminar,

Asbestos Personal Injury Litigation

(Miami, FL, November 2-3, 2000)

"Pre-Emerging Toxic Torts: Birth of a Toxic Tort"

Mealey's Seminar,

Toxic Torts: New Exposures

(Amelia Island, FL, February 20-21, 1997)

"Consolidated Defense: Outside Defense Counsel's Perspective on Conflicts and Privilege Issues"

Defense Research Institute Seminar,

Litigation Management

(Dallas, TX, March 14-15, 1996)

"Multi-Defendant Litigation: Consolidated Defense Arrangements from Litigation Counsel's Perspective"

American Conference Institute Seminar,

Insurance Litigation Cost Management

(New York, NY, April 18-19, 1995)

"Consolidated Defense Experience: Litigation Counsel's Perspective"

Practising Law Institute,

Fifth Annual Litigation Management SuperCourse

(New York, NY, March 10-11, 1994; San Francisco, CA, April 14-15, 1994)

"Building the Winning Defense Team: Outside Counsel's Perspective"

Network of Trial Law Firms Seminar,

Complex Litigation - A Survival Manual

(Scottsdale, AZ, March 2-4, 1994)

Comment, "Appellate Court Reform," 45 Miss. L.J. 121 (1974)

Note, "Parties - Class Actions - Action Fails for Lack of Ascertainable Class and Community Interest," 44 Miss. L.J. 315 (1973)

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Mass Tort

Products Liability

Environmental Litigation

COURT AFFILIATIONS

Texas State Courts

United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi

Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

• Supreme Court of the United States

EXPERIENCE

• February 1, 1995 to present:

Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy, LLP

Jackson, Mississippi

Partner

• January 1974 to January 31, 1995:

Thomas, Price, Alston, Jones & Davis (1974-1992)

Alston, Rutherford, Tardy & Van Slyke (1993-Jan.1995)

Partner; Chairman of Firm's Tort and Insurance Section

Active trial practice with varied experience in complex litigation. Extensive experience in mass tort litigation. Retained by manufacturers/distributors of asbestos products, pneumatic tools and chemicals to defend mass tort litigation in Mississippi, Texas, Alabama and Arkansas. Conducted corporate litigation for a number of Fortune 500 companies and oil and gas litigation for worldwide energy producers.

LISTINGS

Best Lawyers in America

BAR ADMISSIONS

Mississippi, 1973

U.S. Supreme Court, 1992

Texas, 2000

MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS

Hinds County Bar Association

The Mississippi Bar (Litigation and General Practice Sections)

State Bar of Texas

Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association

International Association of Defense Counsel

Defense Research Institute

 
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