Tammy Holt | Of Counsel
Tammy Holt joined the firm in February 2019 as an experienced trial and appellate attorney.
Tammy spent the first 10 years of her career handling all aspects of commercial litigation, first as an associate at Kemp Smith in El Paso, Texas and then as an associate and partner at Brown McCarroll in Dallas, Texas. During that time, Tammy represented clients in consumer DTPA cases, commercial disputes, products liability, and premises liability cases. Tammy utilized that trial experience to transition into pre-trial and trial support, including legal research and writing and state and federal court briefing, and briefing and arguing in Texas Courts of Appeals, when she joined Rose Walker in 2007. At Rose Walker, Tammy specialized in the research and writing necessary to support a robust trial team in both state and federal cases, by writing and arguing any motions necessary to advance or defend the case–including dispositive motions, expert challenges, evidentiary and discovery motions, and post-trial motions. During trial, Tammy provided trial support including preservation of error, trial briefs, and arguing the charge conference. Post-trial, Tammy also handled post-trial motions, and the appeals of cases to the Fort Worth and Houston’s Fourteenth Courts of Appeals.
In 2013, Tammy had the opportunity to take over a solo practice and formed The Holt Law Firm, where she continued her briefing and appellate practice, both for her own docket as well as the dockets of other trial attorneys and law firms throughout Texas, while she also handled a very active, commercial litigation docket.
Tammy graduated from Texas A&M in 1992, and The University of Texas School of Law in 1996. In law school, Tammy was a finalist in the Moot Court competition, and a member of the Board of Advocates, and the Legal Research Board, a service through which attorneys hired law students to provide research and briefing support. One of her judges in the Moot Court competition, Tom Harkness, a partner at Whitehurst, Harkness & Watson, hired Tammy to be a clerk during law school.
Tammy was the Vice President of the El Paso Young Lawyers Association and a Judge and Organizer for the State-Wide High School Mock Trial Competition. She attended the National Institute of Trial Advocacy Trial Advocacy Course in 2004. Tammy has also served as a judge in the City of Coppell Teen Court and coordinated projects with Hearts & Hammers in Dallas.
Tammy is licensed in Texas and New Mexico, as well as the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas, and the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Settlement During Trial for Severe TBI
Congratulations to the trial team of Ryan Rudd, Keith Mitnik, and Ravin Sahadeo of Morgan & Morgan; Bruce Steckler of Steckler Wayne & Love; Tom Crosley of Crosley Law; and DP&S’s own Tammy Holt on achieving a life-changing settlement following a trial seeking compensation for a severe traumatic brain injury. Read more.Combs v. Crepeau, No. 05-23-00088-CV, 2024 WL 00088-CV (Tex. App.—Dallas, Oct. 7, 2024, pet. denied) (mem. op.)
Successfully secured the reversal of a $1.5m jury verdict against our client in a breach of fiduciary duty and fraud case by his sisters over money and other assets left by their mother when she died, rendering a take-nothing judgment against the sisters and affirming judgment on our client’s counterclaim.Gribbin v. HollyFrontier Corp., No. 05-22-00803-CV, 2024 WL 1403366 (Tex. App.—Dallas April 2, 2024, pet. denied) (mem. op.)
Successfully reversed summary judgment granted in favor of employer who breached an employment agreement when, after a reorganization, the defendant demoted its employee and then fired him to avoid paying severance benefits the employer would have owed if the employee had been allowed to resign.Tanner v. Tex. State Univ., 644 S.W.3d 747 (Tex. App.—Austin 2022, no pet. h.)
Successfully reversed plea to the jurisdiction that dismissed plaintiff’s case, holding that diligence in service of process is not a jurisdictional “statutory prerequisite to a suit” under the Texas Tort Claims Act. -
Tammy Holt Argues at The Texas Supreme Court!
Tammy Holt, of our Dallas office, argued at the Texas Supreme Court on November 29, 2023. At issue in this case is whether diligence in service of process is a “statutory prerequisite to suit” for claims brought under the Tort Claims Act.DP&S attorneys involved in case that recently settled for $19 Million
Congratulations to DP&S lawyers Kirk Pittard and Tammy Holt who were part of a trial team lead by Steve Laird, Robert Collins, Seth McCloskey, and Bracken Millar, that recently settled a double-fatality trucking case for $19 Million (for non-economic damages only) the day before the case was set to go to trial in Tarrant County.Tammy Holt wins medical expense discovery fight in the 13th Court of Appeals!
Congratulations to Tammy Holt who successfully defeated a Mandamus Petition filed by a Defendant claiming that In re North Cypress entitled him to broad medical expense discovery and claiming that the doctor’s objections should be overruled because (1) he sought the amounts actually reflected as payment in full on the doctors’ books (as opposed to seeking insurance reimbursement rates), and (2) the parties subpoenaed were experts because they were testifying regarding future medical expenses. In denying the petition, the court held that In Re North Cypress was “readily distinguishable” did not allow discovery “of the fees charged and accepted from other patients for the same medical services that were provided or recommended to the plaintiff.”Tammy Holt wins rehearing motion in the Dallas Court of Appeals!
Congratulations to Tammy Holt, who–on a motion for rehearing–convinced a panel of the Dallas Court of Appeals to reverse itself and award Plaintiffs the total damages ($1,070,050) awarded by jury, rather than a drastically reduced amount ($200,000) based on the amount originally pled. Rejecting its original position that the Plaintiffs’ attempt to amend its petition to be consistent with the jury’s verdict was an impermissible attempt to amend the pleadings “post-judgment,” the court of appeals adopted “the more reasonable view” that, because Plaintiffs sought leave to amend their petition before the Amended Final Judgment was signed, the amended pleading was timely.Tammy Holt wins in the San Antonio Court of Appeals!
Congratulations to Tammy Holt and trial counsel, Rey Perez, who won an appeal in the San Antonio Court of Appeals this week. The interlocutory appeal was filed by a private entity who contracted with a governmental entity to manage a nursing home. Claiming derivative sovereign immunity, the private entity tried to claim that it could not be sued because, by contracting with the government, it was entitled to the same immunity from suit the government enjoys. The trial court declined to dismiss the case…
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Mailing address:
P.O. Box 224626, Dallas, TX 75222
Physical address:
2223 W. Jefferson Blvd., Dallas, TX 75208