Jordan is a member of Butler Snow’s Commercial Litigation Group and the Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation Group. She represents clients in state and federal court in a broad range of litigation, including product liability litigation, premises liability, commercial real estate disputes, commercial contractual disputes, 1983 claims, and personal injury cases.
Overview
Jordan is a member of Butler Snow’s Commercial Litigation Group and the Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation Group. She represents clients in state and federal court in a broad range of litigation, including product liability litigation, premises liability, commercial real estate disputes, commercial contractual disputes, 1983 claims, and personal injury cases.
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About
Jordan has extensive experience in all phases of complex litigation, including trials, dispositive motions and hearings, alternative dispute resolution, and discovery. Jordan’s experience ranges from cases for high-profile manufacturers, Fortune 500 Companies, and municipalities to owner-operated transportation companies and small business owners.
She currently manages a diverse docket of personal injury, transportation, commercial disputes, and premises liability cases in state and federal court. In doing so, she takes depositions of parties, fact witnesses, experts, and defends corporate representative depositions. She has served on several pre-trial support teams for complex product liability cases, has taken the lead in investigating and analyzing individual claims, and has implemented strategic discovery methods to help resolve claims before trial. She has also prepared several multi-million-dollar lawsuits for jury trial, which include securing a favorable outcome for her client as first chair in a jury focus group. In addition to preparing for trial, Jordan has successfully resolved matters for her clients through alternative dispute resolution and court rulings on dispositive motions.
Jordan served as second chair in a 6-day personal injury jury trial in September of 2022. As second chair, Jordan examined multiple witnesses, including three medical billing experts and the plaintiff’s key treating physicians. Jordan also argued evidentiary objections, deposition designations, and represented her client in closing arguments.
She has served as counsel for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, a heavy machinery manufacturer, and a truck manufacturer in nationwide product liability litigation. Jordan has served as a member of the expert witness team in a large product liability multi-district litigation and as a member of the case work up team for remanded pelvic mesh litigation. She has handled depositions of plaintiffs, fact witnesses, treating physicians, and experts, among other critical litigation tasks.
She is active in the Defense Research Institute and is also a member of the American Bar Association, Austin Bar Association and Austin Young Lawyers Association. Outside of the office, Jordan spends time coaching and judging law school mock trial teams.
Jordan received her Juris Doctor from Baylor University School of Law with a Special Distinction in Litigation and obtained her bachelor's degree in Business Administration, cum laude, from Baylor University.
She is admitted to the State Bar of Texas and the U.S. District Court for the Western, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of Texas.
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 2018
- U.S. District Courts
- Texas: Western, Eastern, Northern, Southern
Education
- Baylor University, J.D., Special Distinction in Litigation, 2018
- Baylor Barristers Society, 2016 – 2018
- Fraley & Fraley Mock Trial Award, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
- Beckworth, Hollingsworth and Stephens Trial Advocacy Award, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
- Show Me Challenge, Voir Dire Mock Trial Competitor, Semi-Finalist, Individual Best Voir Dire Award, Spring 2018
- National Trial Competition, Mock Trial Competitor, Regional Finalist, Winter 2017 – Spring 2018
- Tournament of Champions, Mock Trial Competitor, Fall 2017
- American Association of Justice, Mock Trial Competitor, Winter 2016 – Spring 2017
- Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Competition, Moot Court Competitor, Quarter-Finalist, Fall 2016
- Academy of the Advocate at St. Andrews, School of Trial, St. Andrews, Scotland, Summer 2016
- Pro Bono Transactional Team, Winter 2016 – Spring 2018
- Executive Treasurer, Student Bar Association, Winter 2016 – Spring 2018
- Top Gun Mock Trial Competition, Problem Writer, Winter 2016 – Summer 2017, Spring – Summer 2018
- Top Gun Mock Trial Competition, Witness Coordinator, Spring 2018
- The Closer, Transactional Competition Coordinator, Winter 2016
- Baylor Public Interest Legal Society, Fall 2016 – Winter 2017
- 2L Vice President, Student Bar Association, Summer – Fall 2016
- Baylor University, B.B.A., Risk Management and Insurance, cum laude, 2015
- Kappa Alpha Theta, Member, 2012-2015
Associations
- State Bar of Texas
- Defense Research Institute (DRI)
- Young Lawyers Committee
- Young Women in the Law Committee
- Litigation Skills Committee
- Marketing Committee
- Social Media Committee
- Baylor University School of Law Alumni Steering Committee
- Austin Bar Association
- Austin Young Lawyers Association
- Leadership Academy, 2022
- Travis County Women Lawyers Association
- University of Texas at Austin School of Law
- Advocacy Program, Mock Trial Coach
- American Bar Association
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Co-Author, "Cybersecurity: What Businesses Need to Know," Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2023.
- Co-Author, “The Apex Doctrine and the C-Suite Deponent,” Pro Te: Solutio, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 2022.