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About Paula Sweeney
Paula Sweeney joined Aldous Law as Of Counsel in 2026 following a legal career spanning more than four decades. She began her career at the Law Offices of Windle Turley and went on to form Howie and Sweeney, L.L.P. and Misko, Howie and Sweeney, L.L.P., before serving as Partner and Of Counsel at Slack Davis Sanger for more than a decade. She has tried complex, high-stakes cases involving catastrophic injury, professional negligence, and nursing malpractice across Texas.
She holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Dallas, cum laude, and her J.D. from Southern Methodist University. Her recognitions include Champion of Justice from Texas Watch, the Don Bowen Lifetime Dedication Award from the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Trial Lawyer of the Year from the Dallas Bar Association, Legend of Trial Law from the Dallas Bar Association, Texas Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, and a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating. She has held numerous leadership roles in state and national trial lawyer organizations and contributed to the development of Texas trial practice and continuing legal education.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Aldous Law
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A Dallas County jury returned one of the largest medical-malpractice verdicts in the country after a teenager with cerebral palsy died at Medical City Dallas when hospital staff administered multiple times the appropriate dose of the anesthetic propofol following a routine airway procedure.
A Dallas jury awarded $71.95 million to the widow and four children of electrician Hernan Murillo, killed at an Irving Frito-Lay warehouse in 2019 when a boom lift struck his elevated scissor lift.
A Dallas jury awarded $37.6 million in February 2019 to Sarah Milburn, left quadriplegic after a 2015 Uber crash, after finding Honda's two-part third-row seat belt design so counterintuitive that fewer than one in ten unfamiliar users could operate it correctly; the Texas Supreme Court reversed the judgment in 2024 on statutory presumption grounds.
A Denton County jury awarded $32 million in February 2019 to a woman who was sexually assaulted at age 14 after two Hebron High School football players spiked her drink at a 2012 party, neither of whom had ever faced criminal charges.
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