Attorneys

 

Jes Alexander
Dallas, Texas

Senior Associate
phone	214-987-9600
fax	214-987-9866
email	jes.alexander@fletcherfarley.com
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Jes Alexander joined Fletcher Farley Shipman & Salinas as an associate attorney in 2011, where he is a member of the firm’s Appellate practice group. He has over seven years of experience in insurance coverage, appellate litigation, and insurance defense. His appellate experience includes cases before the Supreme Court of Texas, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and numerous intermediate courts of appeal.

Additionally, Jes has extensive experience prosecuting and defending complex coverage matters on behalf of insurance carriers and policy holders in state and federal court, including bad faith claims. He has drafted nearly one hundred coverage opinion letters regarding commercial general liability, property, fidelity bonds, bankers bonds, excess/umbrella, commercial and personal auto, worker’s compensation, employer’s liability, professional liability, environmental, reinsurance, directors and officers, protection and indemnity, and bumbershoot liability coverage.

Jes is actively involved in the legal community, and is a member of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, and the State Bar of Texas Insurance and Appellate Law Sections. He is also a member of the Dallas Hispanic Bar Association.

Jes attended Boston University School of Law where he participated in Jessup Moot Court and was Note Editor of the International Law Journal. Prior to law school, Jes graduated cum laude from Tulane University in New Orleans with a BA in Political Science in three years.

Areas of Practice:  

          Appellate Practice
          Insurance coverage/defense
          Commercial Litigation

Bar Admissions :
       
          Texas
          U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
          U.S. District Court Northern, Eastern, Western, Southern Districts of Texas
          U.S. District Courts of Arkansas

Education: 

          Boston University School of Law, 2003, J.D.
          Tulane University, 2000, B.A. Political Science, cum laude

Professional Associations and Memberships:

          State Bar of Texas
          Dallas County Bar Association
          American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section
          Dallas Hispanic Bar Association
          The State Bar of Texas Insurance and Appellate Law Sections

Representative Cases:

GuideOne Specialty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Missionary Church of Disciples of Jesus Christ, 2011 WL 3805463 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 16, 2011)

Ewing Const. Co., Inc. v. Amerisure Ins. Co., --- F.Supp.2d ----, 2011 WL 1627047(S.D. Tex. Apr. 28, 2011)

Nautilus Ins. Co. v. Concierge Care Nursing Centers, Inc., 2010 WL 5449849 (S.D. Tex. 2010)

Amerisure Ins. Co. v. Navigators Ins. Co., 611 F.3d 299 (5th Cir. 2010)

Fairfield Ins. Co. v. Stephens Martin Paving, LP, 246 S.W.3d 653 (Tex. 2008)

Fox Electric I LTD v. Amerisure Ins. Co., 252 Fed.Appx. 579 (5th Cir. 2007)

In re ML & Associates, Inc., 320 B.R. 109 (Bkrtcy. N.D.Tex. 2005)

Michigan Mut. Ins. Co. v. Alliance Const., Inc., 2005 WL 2297505 (S.D.Tex. 2005)

Service Cas. Ins. Co. v. The Travelers Co., 2004 WL 2218381 (W.D.Tex.2004)