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About Derek Quick
Derek Quick is a Senior Attorney at Slack Davis whose practice spans all of the firm's practice areas, with a primary focus on aviation crash cases. He concentrates on civil litigation and has experience prosecuting and defending a wide variety of personal injury matters in both state and federal court, including aviation crashes, trucking accidents, premises liability, product liability, and construction site injuries. Derek also handles commercial matters such as contractual disputes, business torts, breaches of fiduciary duty, and trademark disputes. Before joining Slack Davis, he clerked for United States Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin in the Western District of Texas and spent 10 years litigating cases at Clark Hill Strasburger.
During law school, Derek served as an Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review and interned with Justice Harriet O'Neill on the Texas Supreme Court. He is a Texas Bar Foundation Fellow, a Life Member of the Texas Exes, and a former Barrister in the Lloyd Lochridge Inns of Court. Austin Monthly has recognized him as an Austin Top Attorney in Aviation from 2022 through 2025.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Slack Davis Sanger
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Roughly 700,000 Texas auto insurance policyholders shared a $52 million class settlement after a federal lawsuit showed Farmers Group charged long-term customers higher premiums than new customers for coverage that was functionally identical.
A Harris County probate jury found Raymond James and Associates liable for a 2019 fuel-starvation crash near Kerrville that killed six people, awarding $12.1 million to the families of three passengers after five hours of deliberation.
Fore Aero agreed to pay $10 million to the family of a Bell 212 pilot killed in Alberta after investigators found the company manufactured a critical rotor-hub pin from steel weaker than specifications required.
The estates of two men killed when a Superior Air Parts XP-400 crankshaft failed during a 2016 Florida flight settled for $5 million, prompting the company to buy back all XP-400 and XP-382 engines it had sold.
A mother and her two toddler daughters, each diagnosed with PTSD after surviving the American Airlines Flight 1420 runway crash in Little Rock, won a $3.35 million jury verdict that the Eighth Circuit affirmed in full.
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