Beaumont Personal Injury Lawyer | Texas

Mr. Sparks is a veteran trial lawyer with over 14 years of civil litigation experience on behalf of plaintiffs and foreign citizens against both domestic and international chemical and transnational companies, involved in major disputes concerning products liability, general negligence, corporate fraud, conversion, judgment enforcement, judgment collection, and foreign litigation.

Mr. Sparks’ international transactional, litigation and arbitration experience focuses on numerous national and foreign-based companies in multiple jurisdictions including: Asia, Europe, North America, Central America, and South America.

He represents plaintiffs in numerous cases in both state and federal courts throughout California and the United States.  Mr. Sparks acts as counsel for banana farm workers in Central America who were exposed to a banned pesticide, including overseeing the litigation of over 9,700 toxic tort cases.  

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Law Clerk	United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas	N/A	1998-2000

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
University of Texas School of Law	J.D., cum laude	Law School	1997
Baylor University	B.A.	summa cum laude	1995

State / Court	Date
TX	1998

• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  Texas Trial Lawyers Association
  American Bar Association
  Inter-American Bar Association

• Eastern District of Texas Local Rules Advisory Committee—appointed in 2008
  Texas Super Lawyers—Texas Rising Star 2011 (International Litigation)
  Texas Super Lawyers—Texas Rising Star 2006 and 2010 (Personal Injury)
  Judge Joe J. Fisher Chief Judge Emeritus Endowed Presidential Law Scholarship
  1996 Achievement Award for the Highest Achievement in the Study of Constitutional Law II:  Civil Rights Survey
  Phi Beta Kappa, 1995
  Baylor University Richard D. Huff Distinguished Student in Political Science, 1995
  Baylor University Outstanding Student in Political Science, 1994 and 1995
  Pi Sigma Alpha, 1994 (National Political Science Honor Society)
  Phi Sigma Tau, 1994 (International Honor Society in Philosophy)
  Alpha Chi, 1994 (National College Honor Scholarship Society)
  Kingston’s Review
  Golden Key National Honor Society

• Illicit Drug Trafficking Around The World, 24 Am.J.Crim.l.203 (1996) (Reviewing OBSERVATOIRE GEOPOLITIQUE DES DROGUES, The Geopolitics of Drugs)
  The Cite Stuff, The Advocate, (2002)
  There Is Absolutely No Solid Precedent For American Legal Precedent—And It’s Unamerican To Adhere To Any Precedent At All, Jefferson County Bar Journal, Vol.1, Issue 4, 4th Qtr. (2005)
  Current Developments And Trends In Texas Privilege Law, Jefferson County Bar Association CLE seminar and Speech, December 1, 2006
  Thailand Is Better Than The United States, Jefferson County Bar Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 4, 4th Qtr.(2007)
  Procedural Law. A Texas Overview and a Comparative Analysis, 7 Inter-American Bar Association Law Review, co-authored with Henry Dahl,  (2008)
  The Marriage Myth, Jefferson County Bar Journal, Vol. 4, Issues 3 and 4, 1st Qtr. (2009)
  Guantanabomination, Jefferson County Bar Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 1st Qtr. (2009
  I’m Un-American, You’re Un-American, What Were We Talking About?, Jefferson County Bar Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 3, 3rd Qtr. (2009)
  National Adoption Day Successfully Prevents Sparks From Writing About Religion, Jefferson County Bar Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 4, 4th Qtr. (2009)
  The Second Big Oil Gamble, Jefferson County Bar Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 3, 3rd Qtr. (2010)
  I Got Your Mandate Right Here, Jefferson County Bar Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 4, 4th Qtr. (2010)

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