For over 20 years, John Browning has honed a reputation as a tenacious, aggressive, and creative trial lawyer defending individuals and businesses both large and small throughout Texas. John has extensive trial, arbitration, and summary judgment experience, and has achieved victory for his clients in everything from auto and trucking cases and premises liability matters to product liability, non-compete, trade secrets, defamation, and trademark infringement litigation. He represents companies in a wide variety of fields ranging from manufacturers and retailers to technology developers, media outlets, financial advisory firms, health care entities and professionals, and insurance companies. John handles civil litigation in state and federal courts throughout Texas and Oklahoma and on a pro hac vice basis in other jurisdictions.

• Obtained a permanent injunction (after a 3 day trial) for a national leader in the animal health industry against several former employees who had violated a non-compete agreement (Tarrant County).
• Defense verdict for utilities company in electrocution case (Dallas County).
• Summary judgment (later affirmed on appeal) for owners of an apartment complex in a wrongful death case (Tarrant County).
• Summary judgment (later affirmed on appeal) in defamation lawsuit brought against two executives at a national telecommunications firm (Dallas County). 
• Directed verdict for attorney/law firm in legal malpractice case (U.S. Dist. Court, Texas).
• Summary judgment (later affirmed on appeal) for national security guard company in premises liability case (Harris County).
• Obtained dismissal of unfair competition lawsuit brought against health care consulting firm and national health care provider (Kansas City, MO).
• Obtained defense verdicts in commercial arbitration proceedings for national manufactured housing entities in cases alleging deceptive trade practices and construction defects (Dallas, Bexar, Travis, McLennan, Tarrant, Rockwall, and Lubbock counties).
• Set aside $26 million default judgment entered against Spanish gun manufacturer and North American distributors in shooting/product liability case, and later won summary judgment for all defendants (Dallas County).
• Defended numerous individuals wrongfully sued by the Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA) for copyright infringement for alleged music downloading/filesharing, including children and active duty members of the military (U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, and the U.S. District Court for District of Colorado).
  
  

• State Bar of Texas, Oklahoma Bar Association
• Dallas Bar Association
• President, Rockwall County Association (2009-2010)
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel
• American Society of Legal Writers (SCRIBES)
• Master, William “Mac” Taylor American Inn of Court
• Member, State Bar of Texas District 1A Grievance Committee
• Member, Texas Bar Journal Board of Editors
• Member, Press Club of Dallas Board
• Member, Lillian Smith Family Violence Foundation Board
• Legal Counsel, Rockwall County Republican Party
  

2009:

• “Social Darwinism in the Life and Work of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.” (Dallas Bar Association Legal History Section, 1/14/09)
• “From Lawbooks to Facebook: What Trial Lawyers Need to Know About Social Networking” (State Bar of Texas Webcast, 1/27/09)
• “When MySpace is Everybody’s Space: What Claims Professionals Need to Know About Social Networking” (Blue Goose Society Annual Workshop, 2/24/09)
• “The Vanishing Jury Trial” (NAIW Regional Convention, 3/5/09)
• “Sexual Harassment Update” (University of Houston Law School Advanced Employment Law Seminar, 5/14/2009)
• “The Amendments to the ADA” (National Webinar, 5/27/09)
• “From Lawbooks to Facebook” (Lone Star Legal Writing Conference, Texas Tech School of Law 5/30/09)
• “From Lawbooks to Facebook” (Dallas Bar Association Minority Participation Council, 6/4/09)
• "When MySpace is Everybody’s Space” (NAIW meeting 7/14/09)
• "Social media: The Employer’s Advantage” (S. Texas College of Law Annual Employment law Seminar 7/16/09)
• “Social Media: The Employer’s Advantage” (Human Resources Lunch Bunch, 7/21/09)
• “The Dangers of the Online Juror” (Texas Center for the Judiciary, 8/7/09) 
• “Non-Competes and Trade Secrets” (Advanced Employment Issues Symposium, Nashville, TN, 9/17/09)
• “What Employers & H.R. Professionals Need too Know About Social Networking” (Advanced Employment Issues Symposium, Nashville, TN, 9/18/09)
• “From Lawbooks to Facebook” (Dallas Bar Association Bench Bar Conference, 9/24/09)
• “Eugenics and the Supreme Court: The Story Behind Buck v. Bell,” (State Bar of Texas Webcast, 9/30/09)
• “Social Networking in the Workplace” (AMSUG/Power Users Conference, 10/3/09)

• “AV” rated, Martindale-Hubbell
• Designated a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly and Law & Politics – 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Charter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America (trial lawyer honorary society) 2007-present
• Elected Member of the American Law Institute (ALI, March 2009)
• Awarded the Burton Award for Distinguished Achievement in Legal Writing (2009)
• Elected a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation (2010)

Journalism Honors (Since 2005, Mr. Browning has authored the weekly syndicated newspaper column, “Legally Speaking;” the following is a representative sampling of the distinctions it has earned.)

• Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in journalism (2007)
• Clarion Award for Outstanding Newspaper Column (2006)
• Suburban Newspaper Association – Best Column Writing (2006, 2007)
• Press Club of Dallas’ Katie Award – Best Specialty Reporting
• Houston Press Club’ Lone Star Award – Outstanding Commentary/Criticism (2007, 2008, 2009); Outstanding Magazine Article (2009); Print Journalist of the Year (2009)
• Texas Press Association – Outstanding Column Writing (2009)
• Dallas Bar Association’ Philbin Award for Excellence in Legal Reporting (2005, 2006, 2007)
• Nominated for American Bar Association’ Silver Gavel Award for Media Excellence (2007, 2008)