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George Tex Quesada represents personal injury clients throughout Texas and New Mexico. He has successfully handled cases involving traumatic brain injuries, explosions, oil field injuries, truck wrecks, medical negligence and products liability. He also frequently represents small businesses in complex commercial litigation cases. Tex has argued before the Supreme Court of Texas, the Courts of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Eighth Circuit, and received a peer-review rating of AV® Preeminent™ (5.0 out of 5), the highest distinction awarded by Martindale Hubbell. Tex is former President of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association and was the first Hispanic President of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. He often makes presentations at legal seminars across the state. After earning his law degree from Baylor University School of Law, Tex worked for the Supreme Court of Texas. He served on the local Grievance Committee and the State Pattern Jury Charge Committee. Tex grew up in Fort Worth, Laredo, and the Rio Grande Valley. He currently resides in the DFW area, teaches Sunday School and is a long-time supporter of local charities such as the Wilkinson Center. Education: Baylor University School of Law, J.D., 1986. ADMISSIONS: State Bar of Texas, 1986, State Bar of New Mexico, 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, Supreme Court of Texas. Traumatic Brain Injuries. Areas of practice: Explosions, Oil Field Injuries, Truck Wrecks, Medical Negligence, Products Liability.

Terrence G Quinn, Esq. is an estate planning attorney in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the founder and president of The TGQ Law Firm. Mr. Quinn graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002 and spent the next six years practicing in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group for a major Michigan firm. In 2008, he founded his firm, the Law Office of Terrence G Quinn, PLC, now called The TGQ Law Firm. With his signature diligence and grit, Terrence assists Michigan clients with legal assistance to help them find comfort in what lies ahead. Since 2015, the National Black Lawyers have consistently named Terrence among the Top 100 Black Attorneys in Michigan. He was also named among their Top 40 Under 40. Terrence serves as a contributor, speaker, and faculty member for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s (ICLE) Probate and Estate Planning Institute and and ICLE’s Elder Law Institute. In addition, he serves on the executive board of ICLE’s executive committee.

Mel R. Quintos has been in private practice specializing in U.S. intellectual property law, primarily U.S. patent law, since graduating from law school, and has successfully prosecuted over 5,000 patent applications. Mel has also successfully represented his clients in oral hearings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (formerly the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, reexamination proceedings, interferences, and reissue cases. He has advised corporate presidents, corporate intellectual property department heads, other attorneys in the U.S. and abroad, engineers and scientists, university professors, and independent inventors, and has provided them, when requested, with infringement/non-infringement and validity/invalidity opinions in complex cases in various technologies. After graduating from St. Anthony’s High School in Smithtown, New York, Mel entered the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Stony Brook where he graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Engineering Science with his core courses directed to electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and materials science. While in his third year at Stony Brook, Mel was awarded the Best Engineering Class Project entitled The Characteristics of Flawed Aluminum Oxide Plates. Upon graduation, although offered full scholarships to enter a graduate engineering degree program from many prestigious U.S. universities (including Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern Universities, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Mel decided instead to accept an engineering position at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation Nuclear Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was assigned to the Advanced Product Engineering Department. There, he worked with electrical, mechanical, and nuclear engineers in the design and development of next-generation nuclear fuels, and next-generation rod cluster control assemblies (NG-RCCAs) used in safe shutdowns or power level controls of pressurized water reactors (PWRs). He was awarded a number of patent meritorious awards while at Westinghouse. After three years as an engineer at Westinghouse, Mel decided to enter The Ohio State University College of Law. While in law school, he was President of the Jones Tower Committee, a committee that helps acclimate foreign graduate students to the American culture while studying in the United States. Jones Tower at The Ohio State University campus housed, at that time, about 500 foreign graduate students. Mel has been in private practice since graduating from law school, and has worked in the Washington, D.C. law firms of Wegner & Bretschneider as associate, and Armstrong, Westerman, Hattori, McLeland & Naughton as partner. Mel was a contributing author of Essentials of Drafting U.S. Patent Specification and Claims, in its third and fourth printings. The book is sold primarily in Japan. He has also co-authored an article with Mr. Shintaro Hotta on means-plus-function claim language in the Japanese publication of Patents. He is the lead author in the firm’s IP Newsletter, with about 1,000 recipients, dealing with updates on U.S. court cases, laws, rules, and regulations in intellectual property law. Mel has given and continues to give numerous lectures in U.S. intellectual property law in Asia (especially in Japan on a regular basis) and Europe. He has also given seminars on updates in U.S. court cases dealing with intellectual property law at the firm’s liaison office in Tokyo. Mel’s Bar membership is other than Virginia. Mel is licensed to practice before the District of Columbia Bar and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is admitted to practice before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mel has been married to his wife, Vicky (a retired oncology RN), for over 30 years, and has two children, Courtney and Mel Francis. Having received a Master’s degree in TESOL at American University, Courtney teaches at a number of nearby colleges, while Mel Francis is a law clerk and technical advisor in our firm. Mel continues to be an avid tennis player, having played Varsity Tennis at St. Anthony’s, and enjoys competing in 5K races and vegetable gardening.

Richard Quintus and Phillip Duncan have been working together for a decade on personal injury and class-action litigation. Prior to coming on board to the Duncan Firm, Richard worked with a law firm known for business, banking, construction and commercial litigation, in addition to general practice, including criminal, family law, employment law and bankruptcy. Richard also worked for 8 1/2 years at a law firm known for an emphasis on defense, class action, antitrust and complex litigation where he headed up plaintiff litigation. Prior to becoming an attorney, Richard was an interim director at a non-profit organization involved in landowner rights, antitrust and environmental issues and was a Director of Policy and Communications at the North Dakota Department of Agriculture before attending law school.