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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SL Nabors Commercial/Residential Roofing, Ltd. v. Allen, No. 05-24-00854-CV, 2026 WL 842104 (Tex. App.—Dallas Mar. 26, 2026, no pet. h.)
In a March 26 opinion from the Dallas Court of Appeals, Shelby White successfully defended a Gregory-based challenge of a Dallas County jury’s noneconomic damages verdict arising from back and shoulder injuries.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.Singleton v. Casanova, No. 22-50327, 2024 WL 2891900 (5th Cir. June 10, 2024).
Successfully defeated officer’s appeal of summary judgment motion on qualified immunity defense, where a San Antonio Police Officer—attempting to conduct a “knock and talk investigation”—began shooting within seconds of opening front door of a home. The officer’s shots barely missed Taylor Singleton, hit Davante Snowden, and killed Charles Roundtree who were at the home. The Fifth Circuit determined that because there were fact issues as to whether the use of deadly force was reasonable, and that because the facts, taken in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs, made this an obvious case in which clearly established law prohibited the use of deadly force, the officer was not entitled to summary judgment on his qualified immunity defense.ASM Global LLC, v. Weaver, 705 S.W.3d 355 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2024, no pet.)
Succeeded in obtaining the dismissal of an appeal for lack of jurisdiction over ASM's interlocutory appeal of a plea to the jurisdiction because ASM could not establish that it was an “organ of government” entitled to appeal under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Sec. 51.014(a)(8). -
Baylor Law Team Wins National Moot Court Competition with Coaching Support from DP&S’ Shelby White
Durham, Pittard & Spalding congratulates Baylor University School of Law students Phillip Ackermann and Rachel Medina for taking top prize at the 30th annual Burton Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition, hosted by American University Washington College of Law. Read more.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. -
Shelby White Presents at Tarrant County Bar Association Appellate CLE
In January, DPS’s Shelby White joined a distinguished panel for the Tarrant County Bar Association Appellate Law Section’s Brown Bag Seminar Series CLE. Read more.Dr. Death: Exploring the Intersection of Civil and Criminal Law
Tarrant County Appellate Section Brown Bag CLE (January 2019)
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