Biography

Jack London and his wife Alice.

Jack London and his family.

JACK W. LONDON

Certified Personal Injury Trial Law - State Bar of Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Named one of Texas "Super Lawyers" for 2003.

Born July 16, 1947
Groom, Carson County, Texas
Diploma, Groom High School, 1965

Amarillo College, 1965-1966
West Texas State University
B.A. 1969: History, Foreign Relations
Alpha Chi, Dean's List

University of Texas School of Law, J.D. 1972
Managing Editor, Texas International Law Journal

United States Army, Quartermaster Corp, 1970-1972

Federal: U.S. District Court (Southern District, Western District, Northern District) of Texas, U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit

Jack W. London & Associates, P.C. 1981-present
London & Kelly, P. C. 1996-present

Member:

• State Bar of Texas, Member, Quality of Life Committee, 1986-1988
• Travis County Bar Association
• Travis County Jr. Bar (Director, 1978)
• Travis County Trial Lawyers
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Assoc. Director, 1990-1991)(Director, 1991-1997)(Director Emeritus, 1998-present)
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association (President 1998-99)(Executive Board)
• The Fellows of the Austin Young Lawyers Association Foundation
• TUFF
• Lawyer-Pilot Bar Association
• College of the State Bar
• Chairman (2003-2004) State Bar Administration of the Rules of Evidence Committee
• State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charges, Volume 4 Committee
• State Bar of Texas Barratry Task Force

Author-Lecturer:

• Guest Lecturer, University of Texas Law School 1977-1983, Trial Procedure
• Texas Bar Journal, April 1987, "Are You Fit to be a Lawyer?"
• State Bar of Texas, Workers Compensation, 1988: "Anticipated Legislation"
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association, London, England, U.K., August 1988: "Jurisdiction, Service of Process, and Discovery under the Hague Convention in Products Liability Cases"
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Colorado, January 1989: "Preparation and Trial of Firearms Litigation"
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association, San Antonio/Houston, February 1990, "New Workers Compensation Law & Practice"
• Professional Educational Systems, Inc. (PESI) - Madison, Wisconsin, September 26-28, 1990; November 6-8, 1991: "New Workers' Compensation Act",
• West Publishing Company (with Karen Lerner, Esq.) Texas Practice, 1991 et seq. Supplement, Workers Compensation, "Benefits Under the New Workers Compensation Act"
• Texas Association of Self-Insurance, Austin, Texas, October 16, 1992: "Obligation of Self-Insurance Under Workers Compensation"
• Business Insurance Consumers Association, San Antonio, Texas, December 7, 1992, "The Best and the Worst of the New Workers Compensation Law"
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Vail Colorado, January 30, 1993, "Practical Remedies for Survivors"
• Second Symposium on Medical Legal Assessment of Chronic Pain, Birmingham, England, U.K., March 4, 1993: "American Case Studies"
• The Pavilion at St. David's, Austin, Texas, August 27, 1993: "Personal and Sexual Abuse Victims: From Trauma to Trial"
• Liability Insurance in Sexual Injury Litigation
• Satellite Symposium, Clinical & Legal Issues in Pain, A Special Interest Group of IASP, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 16^th - 17^th, 1999: "Selection of Expert Witnesses --A View From Texas"
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association Winning Edge Ski Seminar; Park City, Utah, February 2000; New Orleans, La., June 2000: "Ethical Challenges in the Plaintiffs' Practice"
• Trial Advocacy College of Texas, June 2000, Austin, Texas, Teacher
• "General Aviation Crash Course: The First 15 Days" published in Trial Journal, March 2003
• "Issues of Trustworthiness and Reliability of Evidence of NTSB Investigations" published in the SMU Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Spring 2003.

Consulting Attorney for:

• Consulado General de Mexico, Austin, Texas

Special Skills

• Fluent in Spanish.