Shelby White | Of Counsel
Shelby White joined Durham, Pittard & Spalding, LLP in 2022. Prior to joining the firm, she attended Baylor University for both her undergraduate and law degrees. In law school, she was an articles editor for the Baylor Law Review, and competed on one of Baylor’s moot court teams. As an undergraduate, she was a four-year letter winner for Baylor’s varsity Equestrian Team.
After law school, Shelby worked in the appellate and litigation section of Harris, Finley & Bogle, PC in Fort Worth. While there, Shelby worked on commercial cases at the state and federal level in Texas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania, and briefed appeals to the Texas Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and numerous intermediate appellate courts. In 2018, she moved to the appellate section of the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, where she served as lead attorney in over 50 appeals. She has argued before numerous intermediate Texas appellate courts, as well as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is admitted to practice in all Texas Courts, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western District of Texas.
Shelby is a past board member of the Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association, and a past president of the Tarrant County Bar Association’s Appellate Section, where she still serves on the section committee. She has been named a top attorney by Fort Worth Magazine since 2015. In 2017, she was awarded a National Collegiate Equestrian Association Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Western Dairy Transport, LLC et al; v. Nevil et al, No. 06-24-00071-CV, 2025 WL 470145, at *1 (Tex. App.—Texarkana Feb. 10, 2025, no pet. h.)
Affirming the denial of Defendants’ motion to transfer venue, finding that the deposition testimony of a defendant’s vice president establishing that the entity’s principal place of business was sufficient to establish venue in Lamar County.Olivares v. Chevron Phillips Chem. Co. LP, No. 05-22-00057-CV, 2023 WL 2494533 (Tex. App.—Dallas Mar. 14, 2023, no pet. h.) (mem. op.)
Successfully reversed trial court’s order granting a plea to the jurisdiction in suit to recover personal injury damages against Chevron, holding that Chevron was not entitled to the worker’s compensation exclusive remedy defense because the injured worker, who was an employee of a subsidiary company, was not a deemed employee under Chevron’s OCIP policy. -
Shelby White featured in the 2024 Athletes in Law Special Issue
Attorney At Law Magazine has just published its 2024 Athletes in Law special issue celebrating lawyers who played collegiate sports. This issue features our own Shelby White, who was on the Equestrian team at Baylor University for four years. -
Dr. Death: Exploring the Intersection of Civil and Criminal Law
Tarrant County Appellate Section Brown Bag CLE (January 2019)
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