Biography

Cassie Dallas is Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Cassie was recently named to the Texas Rising Star list for 2020.

Cassie focuses her practice on appeals and mandamus proceedings in Texas state and federal courts. Cassie has considerable experience preparing appellate briefs, original proceedings, motions to dismiss, summary-judgment motions, jury charges, and post-judgment motions. She handles matters across the state of Texas has argued numerous cases before the Second and Fifth Courts of Appeal.

Cassie’s appeals often involve issues of first impression, and she has obtained favorable results on behalf of insurers, health care providers, premises owners, property owners associations, licensed professionals, and businesses.

Cassie also has broad experience representing individual and corporate defendants at all stages of litigation. She has worked to resolve high-stakes business disputes, property disputes, and claims involving personal injury, premises liability, and professional malpractice. Cassie regularly partners with trial counsel to assist in preserving error for appeal and briefing critical pre-trial and post-judgment motions.

Before joining Thompson Coe, Cassie served as a law clerk to Justice Michael Massengale of the First Court of Appeals of Texas.

Representative Experience

Argued and won Texas Supreme Court appeal on the issue of counter-affidavits for a major insurance provider
Won Fifth Circuit appeal in which the court upheld arbitration award for law firm client over unpaid legal fees
Won Fifth Circuit appeal in which the court affirmed dismissal of defamation and tortious interference claims brought against insurer
Won Tenth Circuit appeal in which the court affirmed dismissal of breach of contract and bad faith claims against national insurance company
Argued and won appeal in premises liability case against national retailer
Argued and won appeal in premises liability case against property owner and property management company
Argued and won appeal in suit to enforce deed restrictions against property owner
Argued and won appeal in health care liability claim, obtaining reversal of judgment and dismissal of plaintiffs’ health care liability claims against rehabilitation center
Won permissive interlocutory appeal and obtained dismissal of claims for bad faith, unfair settlement practices, breach of contract, breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing, and DTPA violations
Won dismissal on appeal of claims against gun range based on section 128.053 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code
Won appeal and obtained dismissal of negligence and gross negligence claims against indoor trampoline park
Won appeal of summary judgment based on attorney immunity in malicious prosecution case
Won permissive interlocutory appeal in dispute between adjoining property owners regarding right of lateral support
Won appeal and obtained reversal of default judgment entered against business owner and real estate developer
Won appeal in negligent activity and premises liability case against commercial waste disposal company
Won appeal in breach of contract and bad faith case against insurer who denied coverage under policy endorsement
Won appeal in legal malpractice case on behalf of attorney who provided tax advice to estate client

Education

Texas Tech University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2010)
- Order of the Coif
- Texas Tech Law Review, Student Writing Editor
- Phi Delta Phi
Southwestern University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2007)
- English and Commucations
- Phi Beta Kappa

Bar Admissions

Texas, 2010

Court Admissions

United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit

Professional and Community Activities

William "Mac" Taylor Inn of Court
Dallas Bar Association
Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
2017 Mentor of McKinney ISD Interdisciplinary Study and Mentorship Program
Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair

Speeches and Presentations

Going on Offense: Strategic Planning to Beat Reptile Tactics, Webinar, February 18, 2020, presented with Barry A. Moscowitz
Avoiding Stowers Pitfalls Before and After Trial, Webinar, February 19, 2019
Co-Authored: 'Recovering Medical Expenses in Personal Injury Cases,' to be presented by Kirk Pittard and Michael Yanof at Damages in Civil Litigation Seminar, Feb. 2014.

Cassie has authored or co-authored several articles including:

Co-Authored: Martin T. Booher, Jason Yearout & Cassie J. Dallas, State of Play: Shale Development Highlights from 2012 and Predictions for 2013, FINANCIER WORLDWIDE., Apr. 2013.
Co-Authored: Ben Pfefferle, R. Tom Stilwell, Cassie Dallas & Jason Yearout, Drilling Through the Bureaucracy: Disclosing the Rules for Fracturing, OIL & GAS FIN. J., Aug. 6, 2012.
Not in My Backyard: The Implications of Sex Offender Residency Ordinances in Texas and Beyond,41 TEX. TECH L. REV. 1235 (2009).

Professional Recognition

Named to Texas Super Lawyers® - Rising Star list, a Thompson Reuters Business: 2020, 2021

Cassie J. Dallas

Biography

Representative Experience

Education

Bar Admissions

Court Admissions

Professional and Community Activities

Speeches and Presentations

Professional Recognition

Firm Highlights

Thompson Coe Partner Cassie Dallas Accepted into the Dallas Bar Association WE LEAD Class of 2021

Thompson Coe Mandamus Victory in Texas Supreme Court Validates Use of CPRC Sec.18.001 Counteraffidavits

Thompson Coe Obtains Texas Supreme Court Victory in Shooting Accident Suit

Civil Practice and Remedies Code 18.001 Affidavits and Counter-Affidavits: What You Need to Know to Challenge Reasonableness of Medical Expenses

Eleven Thompson Coe Lawyers Honored as Rising Stars in Texas