Partner
Dallas
Tel: 1.214.969.2931
Fax: 1.214.969.5100
Email: tmmurphy@jonesday.com

Profile | Experience

Related Services

• Trial Practice
• Product Liability & Tort Litigation
  • Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Other Health Care Product Liability Litigation
  • Class Action and Multidistrict Product Liability Litigation
  • Consumer Goods Product Liability Litigation
  • Toxic Tort Exposure Litigation (Chemical, Environmental, and Occupational)
  • Trial Experience in Product Liability Cases

Terry Murphy has tried cases and led significant litigation matters throughout the United States in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. His trial practice includes cases involving federal securities, takeovers, product liability, toxic tort, trademark, antitrust, insurance coverage, and a wide range of commercial disputes. Terry, who was based in Los Angeles for the first 13 years of his career, has also acted as national coordinating counsel in major product and commercial cases. Some of the companies he has represented include: Texas Instruments, Textron, EDS, Wyeth, Bridgestone/Firestone, Trammell Crow, Dole Food, International Paper, Occidental Petroleum, Ultramar Diamond Shamrock, Arkla, Gillette, United Services Automobile Association, J.C. Penney Company, U.S. Silica Co., and Texas Industries.

Terry's trial accomplishments include a defense verdict in favor of a pharmaceutical company in a case in federal court in Southern Illinois in which the plaintiff alleged that an antidepressant drug used by her husband caused him to commit suicide; defense verdict in silicosis claims exceeding $30 million in an East Texas state court (named one of the Top 20 defense verdicts in 2002 by The National Law Journal); judgment by Delaware Chancery Court in favor of client in defense of a claim to forfeit substantial rights under a patent portfolio agreement (judgment affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court); successful defense of a $146 million (pre-trebling) antitrust claim in Iowa federal court; a jury verdict of $26.8 million, including $10 million punitive damages, in a trademark case in federal court in Indianapolis (later reduced by court to $50,000 but injunctive relief granted); recovery of $165 million in major insider trading case against securities firm that employed Martin Siegel, and a later recovery of $14 million against Ivan Boesky after a one-week trial in Dallas state court (broadcast on Court TV); a jury verdict in excess of $70 million for insurance coverage for environmental damage in a Pittsburgh federal court; defense verdict for one of the late Howard Hughes' doctors in a criminal case in a Utah federal court for alleged violations of controlled substance act; and judgment in a Los Angeles federal court of sums in excess of $5 million on behalf of former executives and aides to Howard Hughes against Summa Corporation in a four-week court trial.

Texas and California

Spring Hill College (B.S. 1965); The University of Texas at Austin (Order of the Coif; LL.B. with honors 1968)

Law Clerk to Chief Justice Robert W. Calvert, Texas Supreme Court (1968 term)