Dean Fleming has worked as a trial attorney in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s San Antonio location since 1985.  He is certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He handles a broad range of business, commercial  and class action litigation and has extensive experience in representation of insurance carriers in disputes involving personal and commercial lines of insurance.

His representative experience includes:

• As lead counsel, successfully defended a bank in $80 million breach of fiduciary duty claim (case won on appeal).
• As lead counsel, successfully defended a bank in a $25 million arbitration claim for aiding and abetting a Ponzi scheme.
• As lead counsel, successfully defended two national banks in class action cases involving check-cashing fees charged to non-customers.
• As lead counsel, successfully defended a U.S. National Governing Body for an Olympic sport in arbitration regarding termination of one of its professional members for misconduct.
• As lead counsel, successfully defended an insurer in a class action filed by a policyholder asserting that late fees charged for premium payments constituted usurious interest
• Lead counsel in defense of a non-profit independent research institution in a multi-million dollar claim of misappropriation of trade secrets.
• Represented as co-counsel the owner in a multi-million dollar construction contract dispute involving multiple parties.
• Represented as co-counsel a major securities broker in a multi-million dollar arbitration dispute over a commission
• Obtained a favorable outcome as co-counsel in favor of a U.S. manufacturer of equipment against a multi-million dollar claim for commissions by a Russian sales agent

• American Bar Association
  • Advisory Panel (2006 - Present)
  • Litigation Section
  • ADR Section
• State Bar of Texas
  • Litigation Section
  • ADR Section
• San Antonio Bar Association
  • International Section, Chair (2002, 2003)
  • Litigation Section, Secretary (2009 - 2010)
  • District Courts Committee
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel

• "Texas Super Lawyer," Business Litigation, Thompson Reuters
• Best Lawyers in America
  • Commercial Litigation
  • San Antonio Litigation - Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year (2012)
• "Best Commercial Litigation Attorneys," SA Scene magazine, San Antonio, Texas

• "Litigation Trends 2008," San Antonio Bar Association - District Courts Committee, San Antonio, Texas, February 2010
• Panelist, "For Better of For Worse? Planning for and Dealing with Business Breakups in Tumultuous Economic Times," San Antonio, Texas, April 2009 
• “Litigation Trends 2007,” Anatomy of a Civil Trial Seminar, San Antonio Bar Association, San Antonio, Texas, April 2008
• "Litigation Trends 2005," American Corporate Counsel Association, San Antonio, Texas, 2006
• "Vanishing Jury Trial: Analysis of Jury Trial Trends in Bexar County," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Litigation Trends seminar, San Antonio, Texas, 2006
• Panelist, "Arbitration under NAFTA," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P International Arbitration Conference, Washington, D.C.
• "Domestic Arbitration Update," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Mediation and Arbitration Conference, Austin, Texas
• "Anatomy of a Trans-Border Arbitration," lectures to attorneys, judges and business leaders in Mexico
• "International Service of Process," U.S. - Mexico Bar Association Meeting, Nov. 2008, Mexico City

1980 - J.D., University of Houston Law Center
1977 - B.B.A., Finance, The University of Texas

Dean was admitted to practice law in Texas in 1980.

• San Antonio Free Trade Alliance (2004 - 2009)
  • Board of Directors (2004 - 2009)
  • General Counsel (2008, 2009)