Stayton "Bud" Worthington
His primary emphasis is in litigation and counseling involving products
liability; oil and gas related disputes; personal injury; toxic torts; property
rights; premises liability; and commercial disputes.
- Practicing complex litigation and business counseling for over thirty
years.
- Joined Coghlan Crowson, LLP in April, 2000.
- State Bar of Texas, 1987; State Bar of Arkansas, 2005.
- Admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals; Fifth
Circuit; United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas;
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas; the United
States District Court for the Southern District of Texas; United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; United States District
Court for the Western District of Wisconsin; and United States Supreme
Court.
Education
- Doctor of Jurisprudence, with honors, University of Texas School of Law,
1987. Phi Delta Phi, Texas Law Review.
- Bachelor of Science, Texas A & M University, 1982, Phi Kappa Phi
Representative Experience
- Background in the oil and gas industry, having worked in the
energy production and the energy equipment business growing up in East
Texas.
- Three-year career in engineering prior to law school, implementing a
workover and reentry program for Marshall Petroleum in West Texas, the Gulf
Coast and Southwest Louisiana.
- Mr. Worthington received an "AV" rating from his peers as determined by
Martindale-Hubbell's ratings for legal ability and ethical conduct. Mr.
Worthington has extensive experience in products liability actions involving
oilfield equipment and downhole tubular failures, as well as commercial
litigation relating to oil and gas well acid and frac operations. He has
represented major automobile manufacturers, industrial equipment
manufacturers, truck manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, medical
practitioners and hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical
laboratories, consumer appliance manufacturers, electric utility companies,
recreational vehicle manufacturers, trucking companies, oil and gas
operators, drilling contractors, real estate brokers, chemical manufacturers
and boating manufacturers in strict liability, breach of warranty,
negligence, deceptive trade practices, and wrongful death actions throughout
Texas and Southwestern Arkansas, as well as litigation in California and
Wisconsin. Toxic tort experience includes personal injuries and/or property
damages arising from alleged exposure to silica, asbestos, chlorinated
solvents, lead, arsenic, CCA, mercury, hydrocarbons, diesel exhaust and
other occupational and consumer exposures.
- State Bar of Texas
- Arkansas Bar
- Gregg County Bar Association
- T. John Ward Inn of Court

Stayton "Bud" Worthington
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