Paula Fisette Sweeney
Paula Sweeney is a founding partner in the firm. She is board certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and originally practiced only in the demanding area of plaintiff's medical negligence litigation. She now additionally handles serious injury and death cases arising from negligent trucking, products liability, and
some environmental cases. She is a past president of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, past president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and past president of the Dallas Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA); she has been a Governor of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas. Ms. Sweeney is a nationally recognized expert in medical negligence litigation and has obtained record-setting medical malpractice verdicts, including what was at the time the largest compensatory death verdict in the history of Dallas County. She has handled a variety of appellate cases, resulting in the revision of unfair law in both the Texas Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals.
   
 

She has also been appointed to significant positions by the Supreme Court of Texas, including the Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee, the Supreme Court Task Force on Medical Malpractice Discovery, and the Supreme Court Task Force on The Jury Charge, and served on the Pattern Jury Charge Committee for over ten years.  She recently resigned from the Rules Advisory Committee after 14 years of service.

She is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Honors from other sources include recognition as the Texas Nurses' Association Health Care Professional of the Year and "Alumna of Distinction" from the University of Dallas, as well as inclusion in the "Million Dollar Arguments" audiotape series and inclusion in the publications Who's Who in American Law, Best Lawyers in America, Law Register of Preeminent Lawyers, D Magazine's listing of Best Lawyers in Dallas (malpractice), and Texas Monthly Super Lawyer, Top 50 Female Lawyers in the State, and Texas' Top 100 Lawyers.

She is a frequent teacher and invited lecturer, having been asked to speak to legal, medical, nursing and other professional groups across Texas and much of the United States.

In 2003, because of her work during the legislative session in trying to protect medical consumers' rights from the lobby-driven onslaught to take them away, she received the Defender of Democracy Award from Common Cause of Texas.