Civil Procedure in Focus, Third Edition

In 2014, author Eric Porterfield joined the inaugural faculty of UNT Dallas College of Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, and upper division procedural courses. In 2001, Porterfield earned his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in Government and German with highest honors. In 2004, Porterfield was Valedictorian of his law school class at Baylor Law School, where he was the Senior Executive Editor of the Baylor Law Review and earned his J.D. summa cum laude. After graduating from Baylor Law, Porterfield served as a law clerk to the Honorable David C. Godbey, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division. While a law clerk, Porterfield was assistant coach of Baylor’s National Championship Mock Trial Team in the 2005 ATLA Competition. Following his clerkship, Prof. Porterfield joined Carrington Coleman, a large Dallas law firm, where he defended a variety of medical and legal professionals in malpractice and administrative licensure actions, health care institutions in a variety of matters, and corporations in multi-national disputes, helping to resolve a global dispute in London involving parties from three continents. While at Carrington Coleman, he was active in pro bono work for the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, helping victims of domestic violence and exploited consumers. In 2009, Prof. Porterfield joined Lee Brown at the Brown Law Firm in Dallas, where he represented catastrophically injured consumers in complex cases against car manufacturers and automotive component suppliers. Porterfield tried several multi-week product liability cases and litigated these cases in federal and state courts from Hawaii to New York, at all stages, and from pretrial through trial and appeals, including briefing to intermediate courts of appeals and the Texas Supreme Court. In 2012, Prof. Porterfield left the Brown Law Firm to earn an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 2013, where he researched and specialized in international civil litigation. In 2013, he also published, in the Temple Law Review, a critique of the treaty governing international service of process, including suggestions for reform. A revised and expanded version of Porterfield’s LL.M. thesis for Harvard was published in the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, entitled “A Domestic Proposal to Revive the Hague Judgments Convention: How to Stop Worrying about Streams, Trickles, Asymmetry, and a Lack of Reciprocity” in 2015.

Author Eric Porterfield continues to research and write in the areas of Civil Procedure and Evidence.