J. Dallas Winegarden, Jr.

Practice Areas: All types of personal injury claims; Medical Negligence; Auto Negligence; Falling Injuries; Truck Accidents; No-Fault Insurance Claims; Premise Liability; Birth Trauma; Dog Bites; Motorcycle Accidents; Brain Injuries; Product Liability; Construction Accidents; Children Injuries; School Law; Business Law; Business Torts; Municipal Law.

Courts Admitted to practice..1969, Michigan; 1970, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; 1999, U.S. Supreme Court; 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit.

Law School: Michigan State University College of Law, J.D., 1969. Presently Adjunct Professor of Law, MSU College of Law.

College: Michigan State University, B.A., 1966; Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Member: State Bar of Michigan; Genesee County Bar Association; American Association for Justice; Flint Trial Lawyers Association (Vice President, 1997-1999; President, 1999-2001); Michigan Association for Justice (Member, Executive Board, 1996-to present); Commissioner of Statutory Mandates for the State of Michigan (2008-2011);President and Member of the Board of Trustees, Flint Classroom Support Fund; Member of the Board of Trustees, Sloan Auto Museum.

Biography:
J. Dallas Winegarden, Jr., born 1944, has practiced in Flint, Michigan, since 1969, having initially served as a Genesee County chief assistant prosecuting attorney.

In 1971, Winegarden subsequently joined his father, Jerome Dallas Winegarden, Sr. (Harvard Law '38) in the general practice of law in Flint, MI, handling criminal defense, domestic relations, business law and personal injury cases. Currently, a practicing trial lawyer, he specialized in all types of major personal injury and wrongful death claims. He has been lead or co-counsel on many victims rights matters, including major medical negligence, trucking injuries, wrongful death and many other liability matters. He has been involved in many large personal injury cases and has a national and international reputation in the areas of catastrophic injuries, school safety and children's safety cases. He is a certified Circuit Court Mediator/Facilitator.

Mr. Winegarden has served at the request of President Clinton at the National Gun Summit meeting and later at the National Gun Coalition's Million Moms March in Washington D.C. His media work involving gun safety and children's safety issues as well as many other victims rights issues, have included guest appearances on the TODAY SHOW, MSNBC, DATELINE, COURT TV and many others too numerous to mention. Winegarden, the author of many legal articles on victims rights and constitutional rights, has also been widely quoted in print, radio and television. He has become an internationally known legal advocate on the issues of gun safety, school safety, and children's safety, and all types of personal injury claims. He has recently been appointed by the Senate and House of the State of Michigan to the Commission of Statutory Mandates. Presently he is on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Association for Justice, President of the Flint Classroom Support Fund, Chairman of the Genesee County Bar Association's Membership and Marketing Committee, he has been appointed mediator of the Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial District, and is on the Board for the Sloan Museum.

He serves as an arbitrator and facilitator as certified throughout the State of Michigan.

Mr. Winegarden is an adjunct professor of law at Michigan State University/Detroit College of Law teaching a trial advocacy and practice law course at the college. Winegarden earned a Bachelor's Degree in political science from Michigan State University in 1966 and a Jurist Doctor from Michigan State University/Detroit College of Law in 1969.