Ronald Gresham Email & Phone Number

Dean Gresham is a Managing Director at Certum Group. Certum Group offers a next-generation litigation risk transfer platform that provides bespoke solutions for companies, law firms, and funders facing the uncertainty of litigation. Latin for “certainty,” Certum represents the core benefit the company delivers to its clients across its entire suite of solutions.Before joining Certum Group, Dean was a trial lawyer for more than 21 years handling complex commercial, catastrophic injury, qui tam, and class action litigation across the country. While practicing law, Dean litigated on both sides of the docket and developed a keen ability to analyze and assess risk from both the plaintiff’s and defendant's unique perspectives. As co-lead counsel in the first national “click fraud” class action lawsuit against Google and Yahoo! in 2005, Gresham was instrumental in reforming the Internet pay-per-click advertising industry, resulting in over $90 million claims settlement fund. Indeed, as a result of the litigation, Google and other search engines changed their practices to better monitor fraudulent clicks, bringing much-needed transparency to the online pay-per-click advertising industry.In 2020, Dean was awarded the Elite Trial Lawyer of the Year award by the National Law Journal for his trailblazing work on a complicated wrongful adoption case. Dean is consistently chosen by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine (2009-2022), a Texas Super Lawyer by Law & Politics magazine (2005–2023), one of the Top 100 attorneys in Texas by Super Lawyers (2017-2023), and one of Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Texas by The National Association of Trial Lawyers (2011-2023).Dean is a member of the Dallas Bar Association's Bench Bar and Judiciary Committees and serves as secretary of the Business Litigation Group. Dean is a member of the American Association for Justice and the National Trial Lawyers Association.