Sharon E. Callaway San Antonio, Texas
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| phone | (210) 299-0272 |
| fax | (210) 225-7110 |
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sharonc@ccjappellate.com |
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Federal Appellate Practice
State Appellate Practice
Civil Appellate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1988
Texas, 1983
U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1984
U.S. Supreme Court, 1987
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, 1993
U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 1992
U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1992
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 1992
U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 1985
St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, TX , 1983 J.D
Graduated with distinction and with highest scholastic average in class
Law Review: St. Mary's Law Review, Symposium Editor, 1981 - 1983
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1967
Bachelor of Arts in English/French, With Honors
City of San Antonio v. Pollock, 284 S.W.3d 809 (Tex. 2009)
Sterling Trust Co. v. Adderley, 168 S.W.3d 835 (Tex. 2005)
General Motors Corp. v. Iracheta, 161 S.W.3d 462 (Tex. 2005)
Price Drilling Co. v. Zertuche, 147 S.W.3d 483 (Tex. App.--San Antonio 2005, no pet.)
Bally Total Fitness Corp. v. Jackson, 53 S.W.3d 352 (Tex. 2001)
Helm v. Swan, 61 S.W.3d 493 (Tex. App.--San Antonio 2001, pet. denied)
Montalvo v. Fourth Court of Appeals, 917 S.W.2d 1 (Tex. 1995) (orig. proceeding)
Browning-Ferris, Inc. v. Reyna, 865 S.W.2d 925 (Tex. 1993)
Alexander Oil Co. v. City of Seguin, 825 S.W.2d 434 (Tex. 1991)
Professional Associations and Memberships:
Member:
State Bar of Texas
San Antonio Bar Association
Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
Fellow: San Antonio Bar Foundation and Litigation Counsel of America
Bexar County Women’s Bar Association
Bar Association of the Fifth Circuit
Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
Texas Association of Defense Counsel
Defense Counsel of San Antonio
Defense Research Institute
Named to The Best Lawyers in America 2008-2009
Named to Texas Monthly’s list of Texas “Super Lawyers” 2003-2009; “Top 50 Women Attorneys in Texas” 2007-2008
Highest Vote Getter in Scene in SA’s 2005 and 2006 “The Best Lawyers in San Antonio” selected by their peers; 2d highest vote getter in 2007 “The Best Lawyers in San Antonio” and highest vote getter in Appellate Law category; “The Best Lawyers in San Antonio” selected by their peers in Appellate category in 2008-2009
State Bar Pattern Jury Charge Committee - Chair, Business, Consumer and Employment Volume (1997-2004); member 1992-2005; PJC Oversight Committee (2005-present)
Appointed to Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee Task Force on Revised Code of Judicial Conduct (2004)
Groce, Locke & Hebdon, A Professional Corporation, Shareholder, 1983 - 1991
Texas House of Representatives, Assistant to Committee Clerk for Higher Education, 1975
Teacher, Gladewater Independent School District, 1969 - 1970
1946, Salem, Illinois
WHY I PRACTICE LAW
I grew up working jigsaw puzzles with my family on lazy Sunday afternoons. The law is a lot like that for me, starting with the first case I ever read the night before my first law school class, Laredo Hides Co., Inc. v. H & H Meat Product Co., Inc., 513 S.W.2d 210 (Tex. Civ. App.Corpus Christi 1974, writ ref'd n.r.e.), to be exact. It was putting a puzzle together all over again, sorting the pieces into groups and making them fit together to form one whole. I even liked studying for the bar exam because all these separate courses, which had been so compartmentalized in my mind, started fitting together and making sense as one body of law. It's why I love appellate work, sorting all those pieces of a case into different boxes of error and somehow getting it down on paper to make one picture which persuasively tells your client's story. As with every lawyer, I love winning cases; and I hate losing. But the process of getting there is what I truly enjoy.
FAMILY
My husband Robert G. Newman, a litigation partner in the San Antonio office of Fulbright & Jaworski and my son Devin Dittfurth, a Tulane and NYU graduate, who lives in Barcelona, Spain and teaches English as a second language.
WHAT KEEPS ME SANE
Needlepoint retreats in Fredericksburg (Needlepoint Camp my son dubbed it; and he's right); needlepointing anywhere, anytime; flyfishing with Bob, the Texas coast or hill country, Colorado, Montana, anywhere there are fish for me to stalk; and Duke and Pepper, our very spoiled but very good bird hunting English pointers; and last, but not least, Winston, our young enthusiastic English cocker retriever.
