David Keltner Email & Phone Number

Formerly a Justice on the Texas Court of Appeals, David Keltner is lead counsel in well over 100 appellate decisions. His legal writings are cited, with approval, by Texas courts. Mr. Keltner is recognized for his appellate accomplishments. He was honored by Texas Lawyer as the "Go To" appellate lawyer in Texas. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters service, selected him as one of the Top 10 Super Lawyers in Texas for four years in a row. For the last three years he was the "Top Point Getter" in Texas. The Texas Bar Foundation honored him with the inaugural Gregory S. Coleman Outstanding Appellate Lawyer Award. Mr. Keltner is also recognized on the national stage as a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, one of only 300 in the country. Mr. Keltner served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas. He was also Chair of the Litigation Section and the College of the State Bar of Texas, as well as Chair of the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation. The Texas Supreme Court appointed Mr. Keltner to a number of its committees. He served on the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee from 1993-2000 and was appointed Chair of the Texas Supreme Court Discovery Task Force. He was also a member of the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee for Professionalism that drafted the Texas Lawyer’s Creed.

Listed skills include Appeals, Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Civil Litigation, and 37 others.

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  Kelly Hart & Hallman Llp

  2007 - Present - Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  U-Haul Int’l., Inc. v. Waldrip, No. 10-0781, 2012 WL 3800220 (Tex. Aug. 31, 2012) Aston Meadows, Ltd. v. Devon Energy Prod. Co., 359 S.W.3d 856 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2012, pet. denied)Frac Tech Servs., Ltd. v. FMC Tech., Inc., No. 11-11-00175-CV, 2012 WL 1143798 (Tex. App.—Eastland, 2012, no pet.)Peloza v. Cuevas, 357 S.W.3d 200 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2012, no pet.)City of Houston v. Hotels.com, L.P., 357 S.W.3d 706 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2011, pet. filed)IASIS Healthcare Corp. v. Apollo Physicians of Texas, P.A., No. 13-10-00173-CV, 2011 WL 4998644 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi Oct. 20, 2011, no pet.)Faust v. BNSF Ry. Co., 337 S.W.3d 325 (Tex.App.—Fort Worth 2011, pet denied)Martin v. Martin, No. 02-08-490-CV, 2010 WL 2331448 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2010, pet. denied)French v. Law Offices of Windle Turley, P.C., No. 02-08-273-CV, 2010 WL 744794 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth March 4, 2010, no pet.)Winegar v. Martin, 304 S.W.3d 661 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2010, no pet.)Bandera Drilling Co., Inc. v. Sledge Drilling Corp., 293 S.W.3d 867 (Tex. App.—Eastland 2009, no pet.)Fawcett, Ltd. v. Idaho N. & Pac. Ry. Co., 293 S.W.3d 240 (Tex. App.—Eastland 2009, pet. denied)Farlow v. Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hosp., 284 S.W.3d 903 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2009, pet. denied) Sun-Key Oil Co., Inc. v. Cannon, No. 11-07-00025-CV, 2009 WL 626071 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2009, pet. denied)Baker Botts, L.L.P. v. Cailloux, 224 S.W.3d 723 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2007, pet. denied)In re Rental Services Corp., No. 02-06-338-CV, 2006 WL 3525380 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2006, orig. proceeding)Hyundai Motor Co. v. Vasquez, 189 S.W.3d 743 (Tex. 2006)In re Stone & Webster, Inc., No. 02-05-189-CV, 2005 WL 1654875 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2005, pet. denied)Shirvanian v. DeFrates, 161 S.W.3d 102 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2004, pet. denied)COC Servs., Ltd. v. CompUSA, Inc., 150 S.W.3d 654 (Tex. App.—Dallas 2004, pet. denied)