Thomas W. Pirtle

Tom Pirtle is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who has won a number of ground-breaking verdicts in cases involving defective medical devices and pharmaceutical products. His practice covers a number of fields including: civil litigation, products liability, complex litigation, mass torts, and commercial litigation. Tom received a Bachelor of Science degree fromStephen F. Austin University in 1987 and graduated from South Texas College of Law in1990. From 1990-2006 Tom was a senior litigator with the law firm of O'Quinn, Laminack & Pirtle. During his tenure at the O'Quinn firm he worked in the firm's mass tort division which encompassed a number of medical device and pharmaceutical dockets. During this time Tom became recognized leader in establishing corporate liability in complex cases including silicone breast implant litigation and diet drug litigation. Tom has served as trial counsel in a number of ground-breaking cases including some of the first jury verdicts awarding damages to women injured by silicone breast implants and a record setting historical verdict awarded to the family of a woman who died as a result of her ingestion of the "fen-phen" diet drug combination. Tom is admitted to practice before the State Bar of Texas, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He is member of the Houston Bar Association, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, The American Association for Justice, the State Bar of Texas, and the American Bar Association. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Thomas W. Pirtle included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Texas Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Business, 2010 Other Sources of Feedback About Thomas W. Pirtle Included on the 2026Texas Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Texas Super Lawyers list 2024 Texas Super Lawyers list 2023 Texas Super Lawyers list 2022 Texas Super Lawyers list 2021 Texas Super Lawyers list 2020 Texas Super Lawyers list 2019 Texas Super Lawyers list 2018 Texas Super Lawyers list 2017 Texas Super Lawyers list 2012 Texas Super Lawyers list 2011 Texas Super Lawyers list 2010 Texas Super Lawyers list

• Partner

• Breast Implantation, Mass Tort and Phen-Fen Litigation

• Texas, 1991
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims

• Houston Bar Association (Member)
• State Bar of Texas (Member)
• Houston Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
• Texas Young Lawyers Association (Member)
• Harris County's Phen-Fen Litigation (Co-Liaison Counsel, Plaintiff's Steering Committee)