Steve Dillard is Chair of the firm's global litigation department and has been a partner in the Houston office since 1978. He has tried to verdict numerous cases in both state and federal courts. With a broad range of experience in complex commercial litigation, he has devoted a large portion of his practice, in recent years, to the defense of environmental litigation, chemical exposure, toxic tort, and mass tort cases, including class actions. Steve's practice also focuses on the defense of claims arising from commercial operations, landfills, pipelines, Superfund and hazardous waste sites, and underground storage tanks.

• American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
• American Board of Trial Advocates, Advocate
• International Association of Defense Counsel
• Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Former Officer; Former Director
• Defense Research Institute
• American Bar Association
• Texas Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
• State Bar of Texas
  • Pattern Jury Charge Committee, Chair
• Houston Bar Association 

• Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial, Texas (2009)
• Who's Who in America
• The Best Lawyers in America
• Who's Who in American Law
• "Texas Super Lawyer" (2003 - 2009)

1971 - J.D., cum laude, Baylor University
1968 - B.A., Baylor University

While in law school, Steve served as Editor-in-Chief of the Baylor Law Review.  He was admitted in 1971 to practice law in Texas.

A list of specific experience and client references is available upon request.