Current Employment Position(s)

Partner, member of Management Committee

Year Joined Organization: 1978

Lawyer Overview

  Don Bacon has tried cases in forty of the seventy-five counties in Arkansas and nine of the eleven Federal District Courts. His 165 jury trials include a broad range of cases: professional liability in the medical, legal and insurance agent fields, products liability, (personal injury and property damage),  insurance (health, life, casualty), construction, motor vehicles (auto and tractor trailer), premises liability, intentional torts (malicious prosecution, false arrest, and outrage),  fires, railroad, Fair Credit and Fair Debt Collection Act. He continues to handle cases in a number of areas, with a primary emphasis in professional liability, products liability and personal injury defense.  

Areas of Practice

• Legal Malpractice Defense
• Products Liability Law
• Medical Malpractice Defense
• Insurance Law
• Personal Injury
• Construction Law
• Motor Vehicle litigation
• Aviation litigation
• ERISA litigation

Representative Clients

• Admiral Insurance
• American Empire Group
• Ameron International Corporation
• Baptist Health
• CNA Insurance Companies
• Delta Air Lines
• Illinois Tool Works Inc.
• Medical Protective Company
• Precor, Inc.
• Safeco Insurance Companies
• Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance
• State Volunteer Mutual Insurance
• Stewart Enterprises
• Travelers
• Union Standard Insurance
• U.S. Aviation Underwriters, Inc.
• Valspar Corporation
• Yellow Freight Systems, Inc.

West Practice Categories

Construction Law, Nursing Home, Insurance Law, Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurance, Errors & Omissions Insurance, Life & Health, Motor Vehicle, Property & Casualty, Litigation & Appeals, Complex Litigation, Federal Trial Practice, State Trial Practice, Personal Injury -- Defense, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Products Liability Law, Asbestos, Medical Products & Devices, Pharmaceutical Products, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Toxic Torts, Pesticides, Transportation Law, Aviation

Bar Admissions

• Arkansas, 1978
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Arkansas, 1979
• U.S. District Court Western District of Arkansas, 1979

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow (State chair)
• International Association of Defense Counsel
• American Board of Trial Advocates, Diplomate (Arkansas Chapter President, 1992 - 1993)
• Arkansas Board of Trial Advocates, Diplomate (National Board Representative, 1994 - 1996)
• Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel (President, 2002 - 2003)
• William R. Overton Inn of Court (Master of the Bench)
• Arkansas Bar Foundation (Fellow)
• Arkansas Bar Association (Sustaining Member)
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section
• Pulaski County Bar Association, 1996 - 1997 (Board of Directors)

Honors and Awards

• Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel Outstanding Defense Attorney Award, 2003 - 2004
• "Best Lawyers in America", 2005 - Present
• Top 50 Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2006 - 2007
• Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2006 - Present
• Articles Editor and Associate Editor, Arkansas Law Review
• Pulaski County Special Judge
• Union Pacific Railroad District Attorney, 1991 - 2005

Education

• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Leflar Law Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1978
  J.D. with honors
  
  Law Review: Arkansas Law Review, Articles Editor
  
  Law Review: Arkansas Law Review, Associate Editor
• University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1975
  B.A.
  Honors: Omicron Delta Kappa

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Alpha Delta

Address

400 West Capitol Avenue
Suite 2000
Little Rock, AR 72201-3522

Phones

(501) 370-1539

Faxes

(501) 376-2147 (Office Fax)
(501) 244-5352 (Personal Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.fridayfirm.com