Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense
- Telephone: 214-943-0012
- Fax: 214-943-0048
- Toll Free: 866-742-8001
- E-Mail: jbarr@bbarr.com
- Website: www.burtbarr.com
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 223667, Dallas, TX 75222-3667
Established: 1933
Practice Areas
- Accident
- Accountant Malpractice
- Agent and Brokers Errors and Omissions
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate Practice
- Arbitration
- Automobile Liability
- Aviation
- Bad Faith
- Bodily Injury
- Breach of Contract
- Builders Risk
- Carrier Defense
- Casualty Insurance Law
- Civil Litigation
- Civil Rights
- Civil Trial Practice
- Commercial General Liability
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial and Personal Lines
- Common Carrier
- Complex Litigation
- Comprehensive General Liability
- Construction Law
- Construction Accidents
- Construction Defect
- Construction Liability
- Construction Litigation
- Contracts
- Contract Disputes
- Contractors Liability
- Copyright and Trademark Law
- Coverage Issues
- Deceptive Trade Practices
- Declaratory Judgments
- Defense Litigation
- Directors and Officers Liability
- Dram Shop
- Employment Discrimination
- Environmental Coverage
- Examinations Under Oath
- Excess and Reinsurance
- Excess and Surplus Lines
- Excess and Umbrella
- Extra-Contractual Litigation
- Fire
- Fire Loss
- First Party Matters
- First and Third Party Defense
- Fraud
- General Civil Practice
- General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice
- General Defense
- Governmental Liability
- Homeowners
- Insurance Agents
- Insurance Coverage
- Insurance Defense
- Insurance Fraud
- Insurance Law
- Insurance Litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Intentional Torts
- International Law
- Law Enforcement Liability
- Liquor Liability
- Litigation
- Managed Care Liability
- Mass Tort
- Mediation
- Motor Carriers
- Motor Vehicle
- Municipal Law
- Municipal Liability
- Negligence
- Nursing Home Liability
- Personal Injury
- Personal Liability
- Personal Lines
- Personal and Commercial Vehicle
- Physical Damage
- Policy Construction and Interpretation
- Premises Liability
- Primary and Excess Insurance
- Product Liability
- Professional Errors and Omissions
- Property
- Property Damage
- Property Defense
- Property Liability
- Property Loss
- Property and Casualty
- Public Liability
- Public Officials Liability
- Punitive Damages
- Restaurant Liability
- Retail Liability
- Risk Management
- Self-Insured Defense
- Sexual Harassment
- Slip and Fall
- Special Investigations
- Special Investigative Unit Claims
- State and Federal Courts
- Subrogation
- Theft
- Third Party
- Tort Liability
- Tort Litigation
- Transportation
- Trial Practice
- Trial and Appellate Practice
- Truck Liability
- Trucking Law
- Trucks/Heavy Equipment
- Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist
- Wrongful Death
- Agent/Broker Liability
- Commercial Liability
- Civil Pretrial Practice
About Us
Mr. John Holman Barr has the honor being selected by his peers to be included in the 2018, 25th Edition of the Best Lawyers in America.
Client Information
Insurance Clients
- North American Risk Services
- Scottsdale Insurance Company
- United States Liability Insurance Group
- Victoria Insurance Company
- Zurich North America
Non-Insurance Clients
- Aeromexico Airlines
- Mexicana Airlines
- Ministry of Energy, Republic of Mexico
- Vitro Sa
- Yellow Cab Company
Personnel Information
Partners and Principals
John Holman Barr
Dallas, TX
Practice Areas
- Litigation
- Appeals
- Personal Injury
- Construction Defect
- Product Liability
- Dram Shop
- Transportation
- Professional Liability
- Heavy Equipment
Admitted
- Texas, 1980
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Additional Biographical Details:
U.S. Exterior Counsel to Secretary of Energy, Mexico; Defense of International Trade Infringement Cases in the U.S. and other foreign countries
Memberships:
- State Bar of Texas
- Mexican, Dallas and Fort Worth Bar Associations
- Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
- Trial Lawyers Association
- National Transportation Safety Board Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel
Certifications:
- Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist and Pre-Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy
Education:
- St. Mary's University, B.B.A., 1977
- St. Mary's University, J.D., 1980
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