Sidney Childress

Licensure:  Mr. Childress has been an attorney for approximately 15 years and is licensed to practice law in the States of New Mexico and Texas.  He is admitted to practice law before the Bars of the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of Texas, as well as the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Education:  Mr. Childress received his Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California in 1993.  While in law school, he worked in a Legal Aid Clinic at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office and for a federal judge.  He received his undergraduate degree in business from the University of Texas (Austin) in 1990.

Areas of Legal Emphasis:  Mr. Childress practices in the areas of Complex Litigation, Criminal Law, Family Law, Landlord/Tenant, Class Action, Real Estate and Personal Injury Claims.

Present and Former Memberships:  Mr. Childress’s pro bono commitments have been in the area of fair housing law, and public nuisance abatement actions that would improve neighborhoods.

Prior Associations and Experience:  Mr. Childress is primarily a trial and litigation attorney.  His experience includes approximately 30 civil jury trials and numerous non-jury trials, mediations and arbitrations in many different areas of the law, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.  Trials have included real estate and partnership disputes, product defect and personal injury claims, as well as civil rights, commercial debt collection and probate issues.  Mr. Childress obtained his first Not Guilty verdict as lead counsel in the defense of a felony case in 1998.  Several of Mr. Childress’ family cases have resulted in reported Appeals Court opinions.  Mr. Childress also has experience in the litigation and settlement of class action lawsuits on behalf of consumers.

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