Windle Turley
About Windle Turley
Windle Turley founded the Turley Law Firm in 1973 and has spent more than five decades seeking justice for clients in Dallas, North Texas, and across the country. He is known for innovative communication and demonstrative evidence techniques that help juries understand the real impact of an injury. In addition to his litigation work in state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. Turley has written more than 50 articles on trial preparation and litigation and authored two legal treatises, Aviation Litigation and Firearms Litigation (both Shepard's/McGraw-Hill). He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Product Liability Law at SMU Dedman School of Law in 2016. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America for personal injury litigation continuously since 1983, received the Dallas Bar Association Trial Lawyer of the Year award in 2020, and received the Texas Trial Legends Award from the Dallas Association of Trial Lawyers in 2018.
Notable case results
A Dallas jury returned a $119.6 million verdict against the Catholic Diocese of Dallas after finding it grossly negligent and fraudulent in concealing years of sexual abuse by priest Rudy Kos; eight of the eleven plaintiffs, represented by Windle Turley, later settled for $23.4 million.
Windle Turley won a $10.15 million jury verdict against Freightliner after the company's lightweight aluminum saddle-tank fuel system ruptured and ignited in a 1974 Texas rollover, killing a husband and wife and leaving their children orphaned. After a decade of appeals, the punitive-damages liability was upheld but the amount was reduced to $450,000.
Windle Turley filed a $400 million federal lawsuit in Dallas on behalf of former Hare Krishna boarding-school students who suffered rape, physical torture, and emotional abuse as children; the litigation resolved in 2005 through a California bankruptcy court settlement paying $9.5 million to hundreds of victims.
Windle Turley obtained what legal scholars credit as the first jury verdict applying the crashworthiness doctrine to an aircraft, holding Cessna liable for a fuel-system design that allowed occupants, including children, to burn to death in a post-crash fire following a Texas runway departure.
One of the 10 Largest Jury Verdicts in the Nation, 1992 and 1997
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
