CHRISTIAN & BYARS
Joe D. Byars, Jr.
Practice Areas:
- General Civil Litigation
- Personal Injury – automobile accidents, products liability, tractor-trailer accidents, insurance claims, wrongful death, construction accidents, medical malpractice
- Workers’ Compensation – all work-related injuries and death
- Business Litigation – contract disputes, employment discrimination, business torts – deceptive trade practices, franchise law, automobile dealer-manufacturer litigation
- Business Transactions – sale of business, real estate transactions
- Wills/Probates – drafting wills/trusts, probate and estate administration, will contest litigation
Education:
Baylor University, Bachelor of Business Administration – 1985
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, J.D. – 1988
Admitted to Practice:
Arkansas – 1995
Texas – 1988
U. S. Supreme Court
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth, Tenth and Fifth Circuits
U. S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
U. S. District Court for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas
Representative Appellate Cases:
Reeder-Simco GMC, Inc. v. Volvo GM Heavy Trucks, 374 F.3d 701 (8th Cir. 2004)
Backus v. Mena Newspapers, Inc., 224 F.Supp.2d 1228 (W.D. Ark. 2002)
Wesson v. Gaddy, 2002 AWCC 226 (Dec. 2002) Workers’ Compensation Commission (Full Commission)
Rogers v. Lamb, 347 Ark. 102, 60 S.W.3d 456 (2001)
Rigsby v. Rigsby, 346 Ark. 337, 57 S.W.3d 206 (2001)
Burford Distributing, Inc. v. Danny Starr, 341 Ark. 914, 20 S.W.3d 363 (2000)
Marie Chapman v. Western Ark. Anesthesiology, P.A., Case No. 99-3839, U. S. Court of Appeals, 8th Cir., April 19, 2000 (unpublished)
Hindman v. Transkrit Corp., 145 F.3d 986 (8th Cir. 1998)
Morton v. Morton, 61 Ark.App. 161, 965 S.W.2d 809 (1998)
Ennen v. The Eye Group, L.L.C., Ark. Court of Appeals, No. CA-97-1130, March 11, (1998)
Contact Information:
Tel: (479) 782-9147
Fax: (479) 782-3623
Email: jdbyars@cox-internet.com
