Jonathan M. Spigel is a Shareholder in the Dallas office of Cowles & Thompson. He currently serves as the Section Head for the firm's Tort and Insurance Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Spigel's practice consists primarily of general insurance defense litigation, transportation defense litigation, products and premises liability defense, professional liability defense, employment and commercial litigation. His clients include a variety of product manufacturers and retailers; national hotel chains; retail stores and restaurants; national trucking companies; and local law firms and lawyers.
Mr. Spigel is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Dallas Bar Association, and the Transportation Lawyers Association. He is a former member of the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (DAYL) and has served that organization in the capacities of a Board Director (1996), and Co-Chair of the Ask-A-Lawyer, Professionalism and Ethics, and High School Involvement Committees (1991-2000). He has also participated in the past with the Dallas Bar Association's Legal Line program where anonymous callers can obtain free legal advice on a variety of subjects.
Mr. Spigel received his B.B.A. degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986. He received his J.D. degree from St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio in 1989, where he served as an Editor on the St. Mary's Law Journal. Upon graduating from law school, he served as a briefing attorney for the Honorable John D. Ovard, Justice of the Fifth District Court of Appeals at Dallas, from 1989-1990. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1989 and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Education:
- J.D., St. Mary's University School of Law, 1989
- B.B.A. in Finance, The University of Texas at Austin, 1986
Admissions:
- State Bar of Texas, 1989
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
Memberships & Affiliations:
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, Transportation Lawyers' Association
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
- Southwest Jewish Congress President, and founding Board Member, June 2009 - Present
- American Jewish Congress - Southwest Region President, January 2009-May 2009
- American Jewish Congress - Southwest Region Vice-President, January 2008-December 2008
- American Jewish Congress - Southwest Region Committee Chair - Israel and International Affairs, January 2007-December 2007
- American Jewish Congress - Southwest Region Board Member, March 2005-May 2009
