 Sam Palermo
Houston, Texas
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(281) 296-9544
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Sam Palermo is a civil trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience practicing in state and federal courts in Texas and others states. Mr. Palermo has successfully represented client in a variety of cases including: maritime disasters; construction accidents; land and offshore rig accidents; offshore platform explosion; contract disputes and fraud claims.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Palermo worked at two of the largest and oldest plaintiff's firms in Texas. Mr. Palermo is a former law clerk to the Honorable Ross N. Sterling, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas. Mr. Palermo became Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 1993. He has been a regular speaker and author for State Bar of Texas accredited Continuing Legal Education programs. Mr. Palermo has also been a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) at the University of Houston College of Law. He is a past Director of the Houston Trial Lawyer Association and a past Associate Director or the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Palermo is an AV rated trial lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.
Mr. Palermo received his Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of Saint Thomas and his Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law. He is married to Dena Palermo and has two daughters.
Advocacy Training
National Institute for Trial Advocacy Southern Regional Program June 1987.
National Institute for Trial Advocacy Advanced Trial Advocacy Skills Program May 1988.
Legal Seminars
How to Offer and Exclude Evidence
Voir Dire and Opening Statments
Damages
Assignments, Consent Judgments, and Coventants Not To Execute
- Personal Injury Cases
- Complex Matters
- Maritime
- Offshore-Platform Disasters
- Consumer Fraud Class Actions
- Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1993
- Texas, 1983
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1983
- South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas,
1983
J.D.
- University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota,
1979
B.A.
Honors: Cum Laude
- Medical Malpractice Conference, Emergency Room Liability, St. Mary's University and Texas Tech University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, April 9, 1987
- Medical Malpractice Conference, Emergency Room Liability, Houston Medical Journal, December, 1987
- Advanced Personal Injury Law Course, Voir Dire Examination and Opening Statement for the Plaintiff, State Bar of Texas, July-August, 1988
- Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course, Shared Discovery and Unsealing the File, State Bar of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, November 17, 1988
- Advanced Civil Discovery, Shared Discovery, University of Houston Law Center, Houston & Dallas, Texas, May, 1989
- Motion in Limine, The Ultimate Trial Notebook, State Bar of Texas 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, June 23, 1989
- Medical Malpractice Conference, Rambo Litigation Tactics, Texas Tech University and St. Mary's University Schools of Law, San Antonio, Texas, April 5, 1990
- Innovative Discovery in the Era of the Information Highway, Advanced Products Liability Law, Houston, Texas, July, 1994
- Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course, Shared Discovery and Unsealing the File, San Antonio, Texas,
November 17, 1988
- Advanced Civil Discovery, Shared Discovery, Dallas, Texas,
June 8, 1989
- Trial Advocacy Program Professor Byron McCoy - Course Director Assistant Faculty Director, University of Houston National Institute,
1988
- Trial Advocacy Program Professor Byron McCoy - Course Director Assistant Faculty Director, University of Houston National Institute,
1989
- Lecturer, Civil Trial Advocacy Course, South Texas College of Law Nick C. Nichols,
1986
- Lecturer, Civil Trial Advocacy Course, South Texas College of Law Nick C. Nichols,
1987
- Lecturer, Civil Trial Advocacy Course, South Texas College of Law Nick C. Nichols,
1988
- Advanced Personal Injury, Jury Charge, Austin, Texas,
1993
- Advanced Civil Discovery, How to Invoke the Court's Power to Control Discovery: A Demonstration, Houston, Texas,
1994
- Advanced Products Liability Law, Innovative Discovery in the Era of the Information Highway, Houston, Texas,
1994
- Advanced Personal Injury and Insurance Law, Premises Liability: Including Liability for the Criminal Acts of Third Parties, Dallas & Houston, Texas,
1995
- Advanced Insurance Seminar, Assignments, Consent Judgments and Covenants Not to Execute, Dallas & Houston, Texas,
1997
- Advanced Insurance Seminar, Everything You Need To Know About Insurance Law, Houston, Texas,
1998
- Advanced Insurance Seminar, Assignments, Consent Judgments and Covenants Not to Execute, Dallas & Houston, Texas,
1999
- How to Offer and Exclude Evidence, Damages: Actual and Punitive Damages, Dallas & Houston, Texas,
2000
- How to Offer and Exclude Evidence, Damages: Actual and Punitive Damages, Dallas & Houston, Texas,
2001
- Medical Malpractice, Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Litigation, Punitive Damages: Phase Two (Evidentiary Issues in Presenting Plaintiffs and Defendant's Cases), Dallas & Houston, Texas,
2001
- Insurance Law for Attorneys Who Represent Insurers, Damages: Evidentiary Requirements & Proof Techniques - A Plaintiff's Lawyer's View Point, Houston & Dallas, Texas,
2001
- How to Offer & Exclude Evidence, Damages: Actual and Punitive Damages, Houston & Dallas, Texas,
2002
- How to Offer & Exclude Evidence, Exemplary Damages, Houston & Dallas,
2006
- AV Rated Trial Lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell
- National Institute of Trial Advocacy, University of Houston College of Law
- Faculty Member
- Houston Trial Lawyer Association
- Past Director
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Past Associate Director
- The Palermo Law Firm,
2002
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2007
- O'Quinn & Laminack,
1992
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2001
- Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Ballard, Onstad & Friend,
1986
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1991
- Schechter & Eiseman,
1985
- Hon. Ross N. Sterling United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Law Clerk,
1983
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1985
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AV Rated
