Eric D. Archer is Senior Counsel in the Tort and Insurance and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups of Cowles & Thompson. Mr. Archer's practice is devoted to litigation of negligence, personal injury, wrongful death, explosion and fire, oil field and pipeline accidents, complex property damage, construction, deceptive trade, contract and commercial transaction cases
Eric D. Archer is Senior Counsel in the Tort and Insurance and the Commercial Litigation Practice Groups of Cowles & Thompson. Mr. Archer's practice is devoted to litigation of negligence, personal injury, wrongful death, explosion and fire, oil field and pipeline accidents, complex property damage, construction, deceptive trade, contract and commercial transaction cases.
Mr. Archer is a member of the Dallas Bar Association (Appellate, Business Litigation, Torts and Insurance Sections) and the American Bar Association (Litigation Section), Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Dallas Association of Defense Counsel, and Defense Research Institute. He is a faculty member for the National Trial Advocacy Institute (NITA), a former staff and faculty member of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking, and served 15 years as Special Consultant for the Law School Faculty of Southern Methodist University on moot court and advocacy programs.
Mr. Archer received his B.B.A. with honors in Finance and Economics in 1970 from Southern Methodist University and attended Southern Methodist University School of Law. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, the National Order of Barristers, Delta Sigma Rho Tau Kappa Alpha (National Collegiate Debate Honorary) and, in 1983, was the recipient of the first SMU Moot Court Board "Distinguished Alumni Award."
Mr. Archer was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1973 and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Archer has 30 years of civil trial experience, 18 of which were spent as Senior Litigation Attorney for ENSERCH Corporation and its affiliate and subsidiary companies where his first-chair practice consisted of personal injury, burns and wrongful death, large scale property damage, well and rig damage including blowouts and loss of hole, pipeline accidents, line damages, and a variety of commercial cases. In 1977, he was appointed as the first Juvenile Court Referee in Dallas County; a bench on which he served for two years.
Mr. Archer has lectured on numerous advocacy and litigation topics, and under a federal (CJD) grant, he authored and appeared in a fifty-minute education film, "Being an Effective Witness" (1980).
Education:
- J. D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, 1973
- B.B.A., with honors in Finance and Economics, Southern Methodist University, 1970
Admissions:
- State Bar of Texas, 1973
- United States Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- 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:
- State Bar of Texas
- Defense Research Institute
- Dallas Association of Defense Counsel
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel
- American Bar Association
- Dallas Bar Association
